Purdue Research Foundation

Xinyan Deng

Jian Zhang

George T Chiu

Jesse Aaron Roll

Fan Fei

Bo Cheng

Disclosed herein are permanent magnetic AC machine direct-drive resonant flapper system for flapping wing micro air vehicles and flapping fin autonomous underwater vehicles.

Actuating device and method of making the same

Disclosed herein is a voice coil actuator direct-drive resonant flapper system for flapping wing micro air vehicles and flapping fin autonomous underwater vehicles.

Voice coil actuator direct-drive resonant system

A novel electromagnetic actuator designed to operate at system resonance, used in the construction of a unique vehicle system, is presented herein. An exemplary embodiment of the vehicle system is based on an electromagnetic actuator coupled to a plurality of actuating members of a micro aerial vehicle. Attributes of this type of actuation offer several enhancements over traditional approaches. The unique use of an electromagnetic actuator lends itself to a near unlimited number of coil cross-sectional designs that can be optimized to meet performance requirements while maintaining minimal costs of fabrication.

Electromagnetic actuator system with a rotor oscillation

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with sensor modules and mobile devices (including smartphone, tablet) running intelligent software for autonomous navigation, onboard computer vision, communication, and robotic social networks, is disclosed herein.

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Lafayette, IN, United States of America

Xinyan Deng