小型无人驾驶飞行器（通常称为微型飞行器）的需求正在迅速增长。在从民用搜索和救援任务到军事监视任务的各种应用的推动下，人们对更好的车辆设计的兴趣和投资不断上升，小型化部件正在推动许多快速发展。为了更好地理解小型飞行器飞行的基本方面，微型飞行器（MAV）研究领域的高质量研究应运而生。这些飞机有一系列的限制条件，在许多方面与传统飞机有很大的不同，通常最好通过多学科方法加以解决。快速响应非线性控制、纳米结构、综合推进和提升机制、高度灵活的结构和低雷诺空气动力学只是执行MAV研究时可能结合的几个重要考虑因素。《国际微型飞行器杂志》的作用是为科学界和工程界提供一份同行评审的开放访问期刊，专门出版高质量的技术文章，概述这一领域的基础研究和应用研究。期刊采用了一种传统的单盲审查政策，在这种政策中，审查人的名字总是对作者隐瞒。
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.
