US Patent Issued to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on Aug. 12 for "Reconfigurable quadrotor with controlled rolling and turning" (Chinese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,536, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

"Reconfigurable quadrotor with controlled rolling and turning" was invented by Huaiyuan Jia (Shanghai), Pakpong Chirarattananon (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Songnan Bai (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Runze Ding (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quadrotor is proposed than can both fly and roll. The proposed robot employs passively reconfigurable structures to enable the rolling, tightly coupling the attitude of the robot to the rolling cage. The benefits are precise rolling and turning control as well as improved rolling efficiency. The passively reconfi...