A presentation on Micro Aerial Vehicles and some of the effects on our future they will have including past, current, and future development of MAVs.

1. Micro Aerial Vehicles The Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

2. What are MAVs? Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAV) Smaller than traditional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Some are toys, however mainly military development Helicopters, planes, hovercrafts, and others

3. What can MAVs do? Remote reconnaissance and targeting Remote observation of environments Unmanned mission completion

4. What are the benefits of MAV Technology? Lower cost per unit Minimal training required Minimal manpower required Military effectiveness

5. Military MAV Possibilities (Link to Video Attached to Blog Post)

6. What has been done? Autonomous flight 3D Mapping Mission completion

7. Autonomous Air Fight (Link to Video Attached to Blog Post)

8. Spatial Detection (Link to Video Attached to Blog Post)

9. MAV Flight Software (Link to Video Attached to Blog Post)

10. What is being done? Improvements to design of aircrafts Implementation in real world / military NUI-based control

11. Gestural MAV Control (Link to Video Attached to Blog Post)

12. What am I working on? Some forms of basic NUI exist, but the majority are still in development. Multi-touch better for missions than gesture-based NUI systems

13. What is the future of MAVs? Complete military implementation Multiple interfaces for control Manpower reduction by vast amounts Better toys! + = 