AUTONOMOUS CATAPULT-ASSISTED TAKE-OFF, RECYCLING, AND REUSE DEVICE AND METHOD OF FLAPPING-WING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)

    公开(公告)号:US20220194625A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-23

    申请号:US17693365

    申请日:2022-03-13

    IPC分类号: B64F1/06 B64C39/02 B64C33/00

    摘要: An autonomous catapult-assisted take-off, recycling, and reuse device and method of a flapping-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. The device includes a base, an attitude adjusting mechanism, a catapult mechanism, a recycling mechanism, a control processing unit, a power supply module, and a sensor unit, where the attitude adjusting mechanism includes a connector, a counterweight, an adjusting motor, an attitude adjusting input gear, an attitude adjusting output gear, an attitude adjusting output gear shaft, and an installation platform; the catapult mechanism includes a catapult motor, a catapult motor frame, a pulley, a pull rope, a winch, a pull rope fixing part, a flapping-wing aircraft fixing part, two slide bars, two compression springs, and a catapult gear set; and the recycling mechanism includes a recycling motor, a recycling mechanical arm, a recycling platform, two sprockets, and a recycling gear set.

    Flapping wing aerial vehicles
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10017248B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-10

    申请号:US14698375

    申请日:2015-04-28

    IPC分类号: B64C33/00 B64C33/02 B64C39/02

    摘要: An autonomous flapping wing aerial vehicle can have a vehicle body, a pair of flapping wings, tunable wing hinges, and elastic drive mechanisms. The tunable wing hinges can be coupled to the flapping wings. Each wing hinge can be constructed to deliver a force to a respective one of the flapping wings to alter end points of a stroke thereof. The elastic drive mechanisms can rotate the flapping wings about pivot points to produce the strokes of the flapping wings. The elastic drive mechanism can be driven at or near a resonance thereof. Alterations to the strokes of the flapping wings produced by the combined effect of the tunable wing hinges and the elastic drive mechanisms, operating in parallel, can provide steering control of the aerial vehicle.