Design and manufacturing of MIQA micro flying vehicle

Micro flying vehicles¹ (MFV) have become a popular area of research due to economy of production, flexibility of launch and variety of applications. A large number of techniques from pencil sketching to computer based software are being used for designing specific geometries and selection of materials to arrive at novel designs for specific requirements. Present research was focused on evaluating the possibilities of reverse engineering of qualified design made in the past using advanced software tools. A number of designs were reviewed for this purpose. Finally, rotary wing coaxial micro flying vehicle was considered appropriate for this study. Critical mission requirements were planned as approximately 100 Feet ceiling and ability to take videos and pictures while observing the limitations of mass of a typical MFV. The captured data was to be transmitted to a laptop computer. All components and assemblies were designed using Pro Engineer wildfire-5 software. Structural parts were fabricated and assembled to arrive at final design named as MIQA micro flying vehicle followed by test flights to evaluate performance.