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<doi>10.3850/S2010428611000067</doi>
<article-title>Design, Fabrication and Hovering Performance Study of Nano Coaxial Rotor</article-title>
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<author>Zhen Liu<sup>1,2a</sup>, Jean-Marc Moschetta<sup>1,b</sup> and Min Xu<sup>2</sup> </author>
<author-citation>Liu, Zhen; Moschetta, Jean-Marc; Xu, Min</author-citation>

<aff><sup>1</sup>Department of Aerodynamics, Energetics and Propulsion,
Institut Sup&#233;rieur de l'A&#233;ronautique et de l'Espace,
University of Toulouse 31055, France. </aff>
<email><a href="mailto:liuzhen8191@gmail.com   "><sup>a</sup>liuzhen8191@gmail.com   </a></email>
<email><a href="mailto:bjean-marc.moschetta@isae.fr   "><sup>b</sup>bjean-marc.moschetta@isae.fr  </a></email>


<aff><sup>2</sup>Department of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, China. </aff>
<email><a href="mailto:xumin@nwpu.edu.cn  "><sup>b</sup>xumin@nwpu.edu.cn </a></email>




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<title>ABSTRACT</title>
<p>A nano coaxial rotor was designed, fabricated and studied experimentally at an ultra-
low Reynolds number ranging from 5000 to 20,000. The Minimum Induced Loss theory
was employed to optimize the geometry of nano coaxial rotor with the introduction of
weights to take into account the interference of upper rotor and lower rotor. The chord
and twist distributions of both rotors were achieved as a result. Nano coaxial rotor was
then fabricated with a lightweight material of carbon laminate. Two rotor slices were
obtained with mass less than 0.3 g and the thickness less than 0.23 mm. Successively, a
sensitive test bench was designed to measure the hovering performance of nano coaxial
rotor. Single upper rotor and lower rotor were tested with the test bench as well as
the isolated upper rotor and lower rotor of nano coaxial rotor. It is found that the
designed nano coaxial rotor can generate a thrust of 0.105 N with torque cancelled. And
the comparison between single rotor and isolated rotor of nano rotor showed that the
mutual interaction between rotors improves upper rotor performance but impairs lower
rotor performance.
  </p><p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Nano air vehicle, Nano coaxial rotor, Design and fabrication, Hovering performance.   </p>
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