小型無人駕駛飛行器（通常稱為微型飛行器）的需求正在迅速增長。在從民用搜索和救援任務(wù)到軍事監(jiān)視任務(wù)的各種應(yīng)用的推動(dòng)下，人們對更好的車輛設(shè)計(jì)的興趣和投資不斷上升，小型化部件正在推動(dòng)許多快速發(fā)展。為了更好地理解小型飛行器飛行的基本方面，微型飛行器（MAV）研究領(lǐng)域的高質(zhì)量研究應(yīng)運(yùn)而生。這些飛機(jī)有一系列的限制條件，在許多方面與傳統(tǒng)飛機(jī)有很大的不同，通常最好通過多學(xué)科方法加以解決。快速響應(yīng)非線性控制、納米結(jié)構(gòu)、綜合推進(jìn)和提升機(jī)制、高度靈活的結(jié)構(gòu)和低雷諾空氣動(dòng)力學(xué)只是執(zhí)行MAV研究時(shí)可能結(jié)合的幾個(gè)重要考慮因素。《國際微型飛行器雜志》的作用是為科學(xué)界和工程界提供一份同行評審的開放訪問期刊，專門出版高質(zhì)量的技術(shù)文章，概述這一領(lǐng)域的基礎(chǔ)研究和應(yīng)用研究。期刊采用了一種傳統(tǒng)的單盲審查政策，在這種政策中，審查人的名字總是對作者隱瞞。

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.