公开(公告)号：US20220194625A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17693365

申请日：2022-03-13

Applicant: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Jun ZHANG ,  Maozeng ZHANG ,  Aiguo SONG ,  Fanzhang HUANG

IPC: B64F1/06 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C33/00

Abstract: 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.