Robotic bird
OwnerHjalti HARDARSONinventor
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Abstract
The invention is a robotic bird that uses flapping flight for lift and propulsion. The bird has a body, two wings, tail and head with a beak in addition to on-board electronics and batteries. Each wing is controlled separately by four motors. One motor controls the flapping, one the angle of attack (wing tilt), one the degree of morphing and folding of the wing and one the horizontal motion of the wing. The tail is controlled by three servomotors, one for up and down motion, one for tilting and one for spreading the tail feathers. Thus, the bird has 11 degrees of freedom in total in its wings and tail. This design allows the use of evolutionary methods for teaching the bird to fly in a much more efficient way than has previously been possible.
Claims25
A flying machine comprising
- a main body further comprising controllers and motors for moving movable parts of the flying machine,
- opposite wings pivotally coupled and extending from the main body, each wing further comprising three main parts, said main parts being:
- i) an innermost part corresponding to the humerus of a wing,
- ii) a mid part corresponding to the radius and ulna of a wing, and
- iii) the outermost part corresponding to the metacarpus, basal phalanx and the terminal phalanx of a bird's wing,
- each wing further comprising primary, secondary and tertiary (tertials) feathers supported by the three main parts of the wing,
- a head section,
- a tail section,
- characterized in that each wing is connected to and controlled separately by at least two motors, and
- in that the tail section comprises tail feathers on a tilting joint for moving the tail up and down, tilting the tail sideways and spreading the feathers.
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