Flapping Nano Air Vehicles
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
4:00-5:00 Allen 101X
Anita Flynn
MicroPropulsion Corp.
Berkeley, California
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.
The Flapping Nano Air Vehicle final report is available freely online at:
http://www.micropropulsion.com/pubs/publications.htm
After receiving her Ph.D. in EECS from MIT in 1995, Anita Flynn spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher and
lecturer in UC Berkeley's EECS Department. Since then, she has variously consulted, worked in start-ups, started
MicroPropulsion, collaborated with UC Berkeley's Smart Dust Group, and spent a year in UC Berkeley's
Mechanical Engineering Department as a visiting professor teaching smart product design. From Oct06 to Mar08,
MicroPropusion was one of four prime contractors in the DARPA Nano Air Vehicle program.
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