microflyer
Meaning
An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
Examples
Spy planes that are small enough to fit in the hand could be taking to the skies within three years. Called microflyers, the planes will have a wingspan of about 15cms and weigh less than 100 grammes.
The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.
The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance. Accordingly, a loarge amount of research has been focused on rotary-wing and flapping-wing microflyer configurations.
The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.
Word Forms
microflyers
Etymology
From micro- + flyer.