NIT-Rourkela alumnus obtain patent for Uri-like UAV
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By Express News Service
ROURKELA: With two alumni of NIT-Rourkela securing a patent for his or her invention- an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which mimics the advanced flapping movement of a hen, the Uri-like drone innovation might discover a place within the armed forces’ armoury.
The inventors- Debendra Pradhan and Biswajit Swain, each aged 27, declare their superior Ornithopter design and method promise vast purposes in defence espionage and surveillance other than civil purposes in aerial surveillance, farm and airfield safety from hen intrusion, information assortment and forecasting.
The duo, on behalf of the NIT-R, had filed the patent software means again in October 2016 after they had been finding out on the institute and the Central authorities’s Patent Office on May 13, 2022, granted the patent for 20 years.
Pradhan mentioned flapping wing Ornithopter or UAV is an rising space of robotic software. Its agility, physique construction, light-weight, optimized power consumption and acrobatic options aspire to sort out the performance issues and design of the prevailing fastened and rotary kind UAV. Due to its bird-like look and behavior, it may be deployed for navy espionage with out simply attracting the eye of enemy forces. Swain noticed Ornithopter has been gaining reputation over time as the current UAVs are plagued with issues of much less flight time, Biomimic incapability and longer time for altitude attainment.
He mentioned the prototype is completely different and extra succesful than present drones with quicker flight take-off because of its novel mechanism, means to duplicate the motions/actions of an actual flying hen with synchronised head, tail movement and wing flapping, energy optimisation with most power to weight ratio and optimised aerofoils. Their analysis paper on Ornithopter was lately printed within the prestigious Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers.
Flapping Wing Ornithopter
Only ‘foldable winged Ornithopter’
Wing consists of fore and aft part
Coordinated actions for carry and flight stability
Motion to wings offered by a particular kind of 4 bar linkage
Each powered by a single DC motor, balanced gear field.
Topologically optimized aerofoil cross part of wing
ROURKELA: With two alumni of NIT-Rourkela securing a patent for his or her invention- an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) which mimics the advanced flapping movement of a hen, the Uri-like drone innovation might discover a place within the armed forces’ armoury.
The inventors- Debendra Pradhan and Biswajit Swain, each aged 27, declare their superior Ornithopter design and method promise vast purposes in defence espionage and surveillance other than civil purposes in aerial surveillance, farm and airfield safety from hen intrusion, information assortment and forecasting.
The duo, on behalf of the NIT-R, had filed the patent software means again in October 2016 after they had been finding out on the institute and the Central authorities’s Patent Office on May 13, 2022, granted the patent for 20 years.
Pradhan mentioned flapping wing Ornithopter or UAV is an rising space of robotic software. Its agility, physique construction, light-weight, optimized power consumption and acrobatic options aspire to sort out the performance issues and design of the prevailing fastened and rotary kind UAV. Due to its bird-like look and behavior, it may be deployed for navy espionage with out simply attracting the eye of enemy forces. Swain noticed Ornithopter has been gaining reputation over time as the current UAVs are plagued with issues of much less flight time, Biomimic incapability and longer time for altitude attainment.
He mentioned the prototype is completely different and extra succesful than present drones with quicker flight take-off because of its novel mechanism, means to duplicate the motions/actions of an actual flying hen with synchronised head, tail movement and wing flapping, energy optimisation with most power to weight ratio and optimised aerofoils. Their analysis paper on Ornithopter was lately printed within the prestigious Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers.
Flapping Wing Ornithopter
Only ‘foldable winged Ornithopter’
Wing consists of fore and aft part
Coordinated actions for carry and flight stability
Motion to wings offered by a particular kind of 4 bar linkage
Each powered by a single DC motor, balanced gear field.
Topologically optimized aerofoil cross part of wing
