Abstract
Aim of this research is development of a Micro unmanned vehicle (MUAV) named "Ptera Pod" to survey Mt. Mihara volcanic field in Izu-Oshima. These are assumed that agencies or volcano researchers to use at the time of the eruption. The fact is that the volcanic field have very strong wind, so that it is hard for operator to carry, assemble and fly MUAV in this situation. Ptera Pod is folding wing plane with one-dimensional mulch-joint redundancy mechanism, and also it is flying wing form. It is declared by field test in Ura-Sabaku of Izu-Oshima, these features make it easy, fast and safe to prepare the flight and control under strong wind condition around 10m/s. From the results, we confirmed that the flight onboard camera got HD movies about surfaces around the field successfully.
