英和和英

名詞

microflyer ‎(複数形 microflyers)

1. An extremely small aircraft that is typically used for surveillance.
   • 1997 February 23, Mark Prigg, “Microplanes take shape”, in Sunday Times:

     Spy planes that are small enough to fit in the hand could be taking to the skies within three years. Called microflyers, the planes will have a wingspan of about 15cms and weigh less than 100 grammes.

   • 2008, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Bio-inspired Flying Robots, ISBN 1439808112:

     The 10-gram microflyer demonstrated autonomous operation using only visual, gyroscopic and anemometric sensors.

   • 2013, Akhlesh Lakhtakia & ‎Raul Jose Martin-Palma, Engineered Biomimicry, ISBN 0123914329, page 119:

     The ability to hover as well as fly efficiently at low speeds is crucial for a microflyer designed for indoor surveillance. Accordingly, a loarge amount of research has been focused on rotary-wing and flapping-wing microflyer configurations.

   • 2014, Esmaiel Jabbari, ‎Deok-Ho Kim, & ‎Luke P Lee, Handbook of Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, ISBN 9814520276, page 574:

     The interpolation image algorithm (I2A) combined with a 1D camera array have been used onboard an indoor microflyer.