Swiss Agency for Development MAV can automatically fit

According to media reports, the Swiss scientists are currently developing will automatically "dock" in groups of micro-UAV flying through the infrared beam, the UAV can be fully automatically find each other's location, the use of magnets together, with a wide range of applications prospects. Single-axis has a fixed propeller aircraft, you can drive them off, this approach is not driven flight control.
However, once connected together, these relatively simple small robot immediately into a complex multi-propeller system that can coordinate the flight. Each unit is equipped with no motors, computers and sensors. In addition to miniature propeller duct system, there are several small wheels under them, you can crawl on the ground to find each other restructuring. No use of every unit above the height of UAV sensors to maintain the level of activity. Height sensor can keep in touch through infrared equipment, to ensure level flight. Even if one of a UAV fleet fails, the other UAVs can still be automatically re-adjust the position to ensure that the entire fleet of normal flight.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers are doing in-depth study of this micro air vehicle. Unmanned aerial vehicles to exchange information between each other and the information with their own combination of sensor measurements used to determine the thrust required for takeoff. When the end of the mission, four UAV systems can be connected to open magnetic separation, and then landed their flying away. Even if no units were attacked, they can be quickly separated, and then re-find each other again on the ground.
If there is no disruption in level flight crew, aircraft each axis according to their location, independent determination required to correct the thrust of this confusion. Although only a research project, but Distributed Flight Array theory can be scaled up by an array composed of many individual UAV flight.The system should have broad application prospects.