Vector Control for Aerial Vehicle Drive and Method
AssigneeMicrodrones GmbH
InventorUdo Juerss
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Abstract
The invention relates to a vector control for an aerial vehicle drive wherein a rotor shaft (16) which is suspended from a frame (19) via a. pivot bearing (18). A rotor (14) is mounted rotatably relative to the rotor shalt (16). A motor (20) is configured to set the rotor (14) in rotation. An actuator (21, 22) which extends between the frame (19) and the rotor shaft (.16) is configured to change the orientation of the rotor shaft (16). The invention also concerns a method for controlling a helicopter drive.
Claims20
A vector control for an aerial vehicle drive comprising;
- a frame:
- a rotor shaft suspended from said frame via a pivot bearing;
- a rotor mounted for rotation relative to the rotor shaft;
- a motor operative to set the rotor in rotation;
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- an actuator extending between the frame and the rotor shaft and operable to change the orientation of the rotor shaft.
A method for controlling a vector control for an aerial vehicle in which a rotor, which is mounted rotatably relative to the rotor shaft, is set in rotation in order to give lift to an aircraft, and in which the orientation of the rotor shaft relative to a frame of the aerial vehicle is changed in order to control the aircraft.
A vector control for an aerial vehicle drive comprising:
- a frame;
- a first rotor shaft suspended from said frame via a first pivot bearing;
- a second rotor shall suspended from said frame via a second pivot bearing;
- a first rotor mounted for rotation relative to the first rotor shaft;
- a second rotor mounted for rotation relative to the second rotor shaft said first rotor mounted coaxially with said second rotor in a normal state of the aerial vehicle drive;
- a first motor operative to set the first rotor in rotation;
- a second motor operative to set the second rotor in rotation;
- a first actuator extending between the frame and the first rotor shaft and operable to change the orientation of the first rotor shaft;
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- a second actuator extending between the frame and the first rotor shaft and operable to change the orientation of the first rotor shaft, said first and second actuators circumferentially offset to uni-directionally position the first rotor shaft;
- a third actuator extending between the frame and the second rotor shaft and operable to change the orientation of the second rotor shaft;
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- a fourth actuator extending between the frame and the second rotor shaft and operable to change the orientation of the second rotor shaft, said third and fourth actuators circumferentially offset to uni-directionally position the second rotor shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.