ARL-MAST Micromechanics Center Proposal

Teleconferences

• Tuesdays 3:00-3:30 EST Management, 3:30-4:00 Biosinpiration
• Thursdays 4:00 EST Biospiration

Teleconference Number: 1-866-356-2416
Tuesday's Code (3pm): 988116
Thursday's Code (4pm): 988224

Materials

• Nov 1: ARL-MAST webdav folder set up. (Same login as private TWiki).
  • instructions on making Webdav connection for "drag and drop" file transfer
• Also see Docushare Site for other proposal documents.

Older notes

Micro Autonomous Systems -- Got email from Sunil Agrawalregarding possible teaming. Links to Sunil stuff:

• Biologically Inspired Design Of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles Using Four-Bar Mechanisms And Quasi-steady Aerodynamics, Journal of Mechanical Design -- July 2005 -- Volume 127, Issue 4, pp. 809-816.
• Sparrow (2004) http://schema-root.org/military/weapons/aircraft/micro_air_vehicles/ Look for "UD engineers building flying robot, By CRIS BARRISH The News Journal 01/24/2004" -- what is new? -- Seems like nothing since 2004.

Other possibilities per discussion with Kod...

• Georgia Tech. (Robert C. Michelson) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Michelson
  • Michelson's own website seems to be down... http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/RCM/RCM/MICHELSON.bio.html
  • Entomopter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomopter - again, what is the latest?
  • "Rotary chemical engine" with efficient recruitment of exhaust
  • http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.casde.iitb.ac.in/IMSL/MAVDOCS/avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/Bristol_MAV_Paper.pdf - overview paper from 1998. Whats new?
• Aerovironment -- hard to beat for "real" in the MAV world.
• Kroo - Stanford, good aircraft design guy. Nothing (?) on MAV specifcally...

MAST notes

• http://www.arl.army.mil/main/main/DownloadedInternetPages/CurrentPages/CTA/mastcta/MAST_OC_04_Mechanics.pdf -- Talk by Mark Nixon, Director, Vehicle Technology Directorate seems very congruent with RiSE thinking. A couple of quotes:
  • MAV focus on rotary-wing: encourage more emphasis on flapping wing systems
  • Multifunctional structures focus on large-scale systems: encourage micro-approach that moves beyond MEMS

-- MarkCutkosky - 02 Nov 2006