Anita Flynn seminar: flying nanorobots, 4 pm Allen 101X!!

All,

Neat seminar -- one of the nano air vehicles arrived via fedex this
morning and you'll be able to see it.

Roger

Flapping Nano Air Vehicles
Anita Flynn
MicroPropulsion Corp.
Berkeley, California
Abstract

This talk will present Team MicroPropulsion's results and lessons
learned from the DARPA Nano Air
Vehicle program, a challenge focused on designing a complete system for
delivering a 2 g drop-off
payload to a 1 km line-of-sight target (and return) by an aircraft
capable of hovering for one minute at the
target while communicating to a basestation, and yet able to fit in a
7.5 cm dia. x 7.5 cm long cylinder.
MicroPropulsion led a team of 3 universities, 7 small companies, 2
divisions of a government laboratory
and 3 independent consultants. Our team proposed a flapping solution,
for the purpose of natural stealth.
This talk will delve into the repurcussions of that choice, the
scientific inquiries made in its pursuit, and
all the engineering tradeoffs involving guidance, electronics, power,
motors and control.
The Flapping Nano Air Vehicle final report is available freely online at:
http://www.micropropulsion.com/pubs/publications.htm