International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles

Aims & Scope

The demand for small unmanned air vehicles, commonly termed micro air vehicles, is rapidly increasing.

Driven by applications ranging from civil search-and-rescue missions to military surveillance missions, there is a rising level of interest and investment in better vehicle designs, and miniaturized components are enabling many rapid advances.

The need to better understand fundamental aspects of flight for small vehicles has spawned a surge in high quality research in the area of micro air vehicle, or MAV research.

These aircraft have a set of constraints which are, in many ways, considerably different from that of traditional aircraft and are often best addressed by a multidisciplinary approach.

Fast-response non-linear controls, nano-structures, integrated propulsion and lift mechanisms, highly flexible structures, and low Reynolds aerodynamics are just a few of the important considerations which may be combined in the execution of MAV research.

The role of the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles is to provide the scientific and engineering community with a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality technical articles summarizing both fundamental and applied research in this field.

The journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the authors.

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Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Engineering, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Engineering, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 2,000.00 USD. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Design, Aerodynamics, and Vision-Based Control of the DelFly

  Citation: 302

  Authors: G.C.H.E., K.M.E., R., B., C.

• Autonomous Flight in Unknown Indoor Environments

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Abraham, Ruijie, Nicholas

• COLIBRI: A hovering flapping twin-wing robot

  Citation: 139

  Authors: A, H, M, A

• Ultra-wideband based cooperative relative localization algorithm and experiments for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS denied environments

  Citation: 116

  Authors: Kexin, Zhirong, Wei, Lihua, Rodney

• Dove: A biomimetic flapping-wing micro air vehicle

  Citation: 115

  Authors: Wenqing, Liguang, Bifeng

• On the Unsteady Behavior of the Flow around NACA 0012 Airfoil with Steady External Conditions at Re=1000

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Dilek Funda

• Design and Control of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Autonomous Parcel Delivery with Transition from Vertical Take-off to Forward Flight – VertiKUL, a Quadcopter Tailsitter

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Menno, Cyriel, Bart, Joris

• On Low Altitude Flight through the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

  Citation: 71

  Authors: S., M., B., M.

• Acoustic signature measurement of small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft systems

  Citation: 68

  Authors: N, S, R

• KUBeetle-S: An insect-like, tailless, hover-capable robot that can fly with a low-torque control mechanism

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Hoang Vu, Steven, Taesam, Hoon Cheol