{"id":55152,"date":"2019-04-16T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/2019\/04\/16\/this-drone-can-fly-in-windy-conditions\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:51:30","slug":"this-drone-can-fly-in-windy-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/this-drone-can-fly-in-windy-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"This drone can fly in windy conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York, April 16 (IANS)<\/strong> A Purdue University researcher has developed a patented design for drones that works in windy conditions, is more energy efficient and can handle a larger payload.<\/p>\n “Our drone design was inspired by the wings and flight patterns of insects,” said Xiumin Diao, Assistant professor in Purdue’s School of Engineering Technology.<\/p>\n “We created a drone design with automatic folding arms that can make in-flight adjustments.” The design also makes drones more energy efficient because the movable-arm technology allows for the use of the full range of rotor thrust.<\/p>\n “The drones on the market now have fixed arms and that greatly reduces their maximum payload capacity when the payload is offset their centre of gravity,” Diao said in a paper published in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control.<\/p>\n The foldable arms can also help in search-and-rescue operations using drones because they can more effectively navigate the air conditions in ravaged areas and morph by moving the arms to go through narrow spaces, said researchers.<\/p>\n –IANS New York, April 16 (IANS) A Purdue University researcher has developed a patented design for drones that works in windy conditions, is more energy efficient and can handle a larger payload. “Our drone design was inspired by the wings and flight patterns of insects,” said Xiumin Diao, Assistant professor in Purdue’s School of Engineering Technology. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":55189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[16059,12029,8165,5380,4064,2220,18879,19908],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe design provides drones with improved stability in windy conditions because the folding arms can move and change the centre of gravity of the device during flight.<\/p>\n
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