Compact aerial mission modular material handling system
AssigneeUrbineer Inc
InventorsStuart MARSHALL, Arakel MELIDONIAN, Sean KIRKHUFF, Eric MARC-AURELE
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Abstract
According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a method, system and apparatus for an aircraft may be shown and described. An exemplary embodiment may be an autonomous aircraft which can vertically takeoff and land (VTOL). The VTOL aircraft may have a modular pod which carries a removable payload. The entire VTOL aircraft may be portable. An exemplary embodiment may fit into a standard sized freight container. A propulsion system may be based on distributed electric propulsion. An exemplary embodiment may implement variable pitch propellers and collective pitch variation.
Claims18
A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage;
- a plurality of wings, each wing having at least a portion configured to rotate into a vertical position for takeoff and landing and rotate into a horizontal position for flight;
- a plurality of nacelles, each nacelle being coupled to a wing of the plurality of wings;
- a plurality of rotors, each rotor being coupled to a corresponding nacelle, the corresponding nacelle housing at least one motor configured to rotate the rotor;
- and and
- a flight controller configured to perform collective pitch control of the plurality of rotors, wherein the collective pitch control performs alteration of angles of all blades in each respective rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.