microflyer

plural microflyers

1. An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.

   The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.

   2008, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Bio-inspired Flying Robots, →ISBN

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   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.

   1997 February 23, Mark Prigg, “Microplanes take shape”, in Sunday Times

   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.

   2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, →ISBN, page 119

   The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.

   2014, Esmaiel Jabbari, Deok-Ho Kim, Luke P Lee, Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, →ISBN, page 574