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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald Bolden Hutson, San Diego, CA (US);
Charles Wheeler Sweet, III, San Diego, CA (US);
Paul Ferrell, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments include a drone having a landing control device that is configured to rotate wings into an auto-rotation decent configuration causing the drone to enter a nose-down attitude and spin about a long axis of the drone, and to collectively control pivot angles of the wings to enables control of decent rate and lateral motion during an auto-rotation descent. The landing control device may be a landing carousel including a pivotal frame secured to a drone body and configured to rotate about a carousel axis extending laterally relative to a longitudinal axis of the body. The landing carousel may include a first wing motor configured to pivot a first wing about a wing pivot axis extending parallel to the carousel axis, and a second wing motor configured to pivot a second wing about the wing pivot axis independent of the pivot the first wing.