OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Co-simulation platform for geometric design, trajectory control and guidance of racing drones	16
Aeroacoustic optimization of MAV rotors	16
An investigation on the structural vibrations of multi-rotor passenger drones	14
Design of a gust-generating wind tunnel for dynamic identification of micro air vehicles and bumblebee flight	12
Low order modeling of dynamic stall using vortex particle method and dynamic mode decomposition	11
Improved moving horizon estimation for ultra-wideband localization on small drones	9
Experimental and theoretical study of gravity-driven falling plates	8
Wind tunnel tests of a wing at all angles of attack	7
Analyzing visual imagery for emergency drone landing on unknown environments	7
Vortex particle method with iterative Brinkman penalization for simulation of flow past sharp-shape bodies	7
Incremental coverage path planning method for UAV ground mapping in unknown area	6
Design, development, and flight testing of a 70-gram micro quad-cyclocopter	5
Mini-UAV structure optimization for efficient thermal soaring	5
A data-driven predictive maintenance model to estimate RUL in a multi-rotor UAS	5
Field report: Deployment of a fleet of drones for cloud exploration	5
Editorial	4
Inherently stable descending flight of a tailless flapping wing micro air vehicle by upward wing elevation	4
AD-YOLOv5s based UAV detection for low altitude security	4
Airflow-based odometry for MAVs using thermal anemometers	3
Indoor and outdoor in-flight odometry based solely on optic flows with oscillatory trajectories	2
Design optimization-under-uncertainty of a forward swept wing unmanned aerial vehicle using SAMURAI	2
System identification of a thrust-vectoring, coaxial-rotor-based gun-launched micro air vehicle in hovering flight	2
Trajectory optimization for fully actuated hexacopters: Enhancing maneuverability and applications	2
Evaluation of drag coefficient for a quadrotor model	2
Distributed nonlinear model predictive control for a quadrotor UAV	1

Seeing with sound; surface detection and avoidance by sensing self-generated noise	1
Dynamic Modeling and Control Law Design of a Fuel-electric Hybrid Multi-rotor UAV	1
Corrigendum to “Exploring tandem wing UAS designs for operation in turbulent urban environments”	1
Robust design of compact axial compressor	1
On association of lift generation, wake topology and kinematics of oscillating foils	1
Ball-and-Socket joint produces longitudinal and lateral control with a horizontal feathered tail for small uncrewed aerial systems	1
Rapid extraction of propeller geometry using photogrammetry	1
Experimental study on the aerodynamic optimization design of flexible wings for tailless flapping wing micro air vehicles	1
Extended incremental non-linear control allocation (XINCA) for quadplanes	1
Co-TS: Design and Implementation of a 2-UAV Cooperative Transportation System	1
Kinematic modeling and analysis of transmission mechanism with joint clearance for flapping wing micro aerial vehicle	1