Festo creates SmartBird flying robotic seagull

Festo's SmartBird robotic seagull and its herring gull inspiration

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Festo has added to its robotic menagerie with the creation of a robotic seagull that weighs just 450 g (15.87 oz) and boasts a wingspan of 1.96 m (6.4 ft). Dubbed the SmartBird, the ultralight flying robot was inspired by the herring gull and can take off, fly and land autonomously, without the help of any additional drive systems.

In creating the SmartBird, Festo says it has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds. The robot's wings not only beat up and down, with a lever mechanism increasing the degree of deflection to increase from the torso to the wing tip, but also twist at specific angles along their length in the same way that a real bird's do so that the leading edge is directed upwards during the upward stroke.

Directional control is achieved through the opposing movement of the robot's head and torso sections, which is synchronized by means of two electric motors and cables. This enables it to bend aerodynamically, with simultaneous weight displacement, and is responsible for the SmartBird's agility and maneuverability.

As with a real bird, the SmartBird's tail isn't just for show either. It produces lift and functions as both a pitch elevator and yaw rudder. In addition to stabilizing the robot in a similar way to an aircraft's conventional vertical stabilizer, the tail also tilts to initiate left and right turns and rotates about the longitudinal axis to produce yaw.

Packed inside the SmartBird's torso are the battery, engine and transmission, the crank transmission and control and regulation electronics. Wing position and torsion can be monitored via two-way ZigBee protocol radio communication and can be adjusted and optimized in real time during flight.

Festo says developing the SmartBird has provided insights that will help it in a variety of areas. The robot's minimal use of materials and lightweight construction will help increase efficiencies in resource and energy consumption, while the functional integration of its coupled drive units have provided ideas the company says it can transfer to the development of hybrid drive technology. Additionally, analysis of its flow characteristics during development has provided insights into ways to optimize future designs. Another plus is that it won't try and steal your chips at the beach.

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Festo創(chuàng)造仿生機(jī)器海鷗SmartBird? Festo創(chuàng)建SmartBird飛行機(jī)器人seagull

費斯托的SmartBird機(jī)器人海鷗和鯡魚鷗靈感

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Festo增加了機(jī)器人的動物園，創(chuàng)造了一個機(jī)器人海鷗，重量只有450克（15.87盎司），并擁有1.96米（6.4英尺）翼展。被稱為智能鳥，超輕型飛行機(jī)器人靈感來自鯡魚鷗，可以起飛，飛行和陸地自主，沒有任何額外的驅(qū)動系統(tǒng)的幫助。

在創(chuàng)建SmartBird，費斯托說，它已經(jīng)成功地破譯鳥類的飛行。機(jī)器人的翼不僅擊敗上下，具有杠桿機(jī)構(gòu)增加偏轉(zhuǎn)從軀干翼尖增加的程度，而且還扭轉(zhuǎn)特定的角度沿其長度以同樣的方式，一個真正的鳥的做使得前緣的上行沖程期間向上指向。

定向的控制是通過機(jī)械手的頭部和軀干部分的相對運動，這是由兩個電動馬達(dá)和電纜的裝置同步來實現(xiàn)的。這使得它彎曲空氣動力學(xué)，并同時重變，和負(fù)責(zé)SmartBird的敏捷性和可操作性。

作為一個真正的鳥，在SmartBird的尾巴是不是作秀無論是。它生產(chǎn)的電梯和功能既是一種俯仰升降舵和方向舵偏轉(zhuǎn)。除了穩(wěn)定的機(jī)器人以類似的方式，以飛機(jī)的常規(guī)垂直安定，尾部也傾斜以引發(fā)左，右轉(zhuǎn)彎和繞縱向軸線，以產(chǎn)生偏航。

所述SmartBird的軀干內(nèi)盒裝是電池，發(fā)動機(jī)和傳動，曲軸傳動，控制和調(diào)節(jié)電子設(shè)備。翼位置和扭轉(zhuǎn)可以經(jīng)由雙向ZigBee協(xié)議的無線電通信進(jìn)行監(jiān)測，并可以調(diào)整，并在飛行過程中優(yōu)化的實時性。

Festo的說發(fā)展SmartBird已提供的見解，這將有助于它在各種領(lǐng)域。機(jī)器人的最小使用的材料和輕質(zhì)結(jié)構(gòu)將有助于提高效率，在資源和能源消耗，而其耦合驅(qū)動單元的功能集成提供了思路該公司說，它可以轉(zhuǎn)移到混合動力驅(qū)動技術(shù)的發(fā)展。此外，它的流量特性開發(fā)過程中的分析提供了見解的方法來優(yōu)化未來的設(shè)計。另一個好處是，它不會試圖竊取你的籌碼在沙灘上。