Drone comprising lift-producing wings
AssigneeParrot Drones
InventorsMarc Mari Mari, Gauthier Lavagen, Yoni Benatar
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Abstract
A method for dynamically controlling the attitude of a rotary-wing drone. The method includes dynamically controlling the attitude of the drone when the drone is flying using lift of each of four wings of the drone, by controlling the attitude of the drone by sending differentiated commands to one or more propulsion units of the drone so as to rotate the drone about a roll axis and/or pitch axis and/or heading axis of the drone from a current angular position to a final angular position, the axes being defined in the reference point of the drone.
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A method for dynamically controlling the attitude of a rotary-wing drone, the method comprising:
- when the drone is flying using lift of each of four wings of the drone, controlling the attitude of the drone by sending differentiated commands to one or more propulsion units of the drone so as to rotate the drone about a roll axis and/or pitch axis and/or heading axis of the drone from a current angular position to a final angular position, said axes being defined in the reference point of the drone.
A rotary-wing drone comprising
- a drone body that comprises an electronic board which controls the piloting of the drone,
- four link arms, each arm comprising a rigidly connected propulsion unit,
- wherein the four link arms form lift-producing wings,
- wherein the electronic board has computer programming enabled to dynamically control the attitude of said drone when the drone is flying using lift of each of four wings of the drone, by controlling the attitude of the drone by sending differentiated commands to one or more propulsion units of the drone so as to rotate the drone about a roll axis and/or pitch axis and/or heading axis of the drone from a current angular position to a final angular position, said axes being defined in the reference point of the drone.
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