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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
An investigation on the structural vibrations of multi-rotor passenger drones	13
Co-simulation platform for geometric design, trajectory control and guidance of racing drones	13
Aeroacoustic optimization of MAV rotors	11
Experimental and theoretical study of gravity-driven falling plates	11
Low order modeling of dynamic stall using vortex particle method and dynamic mode decomposition	10
Analyzing visual imagery for emergency drone landing on unknown environments	7
Wind tunnel tests of a wing at all angles of attack	7
Improved moving horizon estimation for ultra-wideband localization on small drones	7
Incremental coverage path planning method for UAV ground mapping in unknown area	5
Design, development, and flight testing of a 70-gram micro quad-cyclocopter	5
Vortex particle method with iterative Brinkman penalization for simulation of flow past sharp-shape bodies	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
AD-YOLOv5s based UAV detection for low altitude security	4
Inherently stable descending flight of a tailless flapping wing micro air vehicle by upward wing elevation	4
Editorial	4
Field report: Deployment of a fleet of drones for cloud exploration	4
Design optimization-under-uncertainty of a forward swept wing unmanned aerial vehicle using SAMURAI	3
Airflow-based odometry for MAVs using thermal anemometers	3
Robust design of compact axial compressor	2
Trajectory optimization for fully actuated hexacopters: Enhancing maneuverability and applications	2
Evaluation of drag coefficient for a quadrotor model	2
Experimental study on the aerodynamic optimization design of flexible wings for tailless flapping wing micro air vehicles	2
System identification of a thrust-vectoring, coaxial-rotor-based gun-launched micro air vehicle in hovering flight	2
On association of lift generation, wake topology and kinematics of oscillating foils	1

Distributed nonlinear model predictive control for a quadrotor UAV	1
Ball-and-Socket joint produces longitudinal and lateral control with a horizontal feathered tail for small uncrewed aerial systems	1
Indoor and outdoor in-flight odometry based solely on optic flows with oscillatory trajectories	1
Dynamic Modeling and Control Law Design of a Fuel-electric Hybrid Multi-rotor UAV	1
Extended incremental non-linear control allocation (XINCA) for quadplanes	1
Seeing with sound; surface detection and avoidance by sensing self-generated noise	1
Kinematic modeling and analysis of transmission mechanism with joint clearance for flapping wing micro aerial vehicle	1