There is provided a safety apparatus that not only has excellent safety performance but also has improved ease of accommodation of an ejected object in a container, and is capable of securing diversity of attachment positions to an aerial vehicle as compared with a related art, and an aerial vehicle including the safety apparatus. The safety apparatus includes a pilot chute ejector 62 and a main parachute storage. The pilot chute ejector 62 includes an actuator 1, a push-up member 15 pushed up in one direction by the actuator 1, a pilot chute 16 pushed up while being supported by the push-up member 15, a bottomed cylindrical container 18 that accommodates the actuator 1, the push-up member 15, and the pilot chute 16, and a lid 21 having a fan-shaped cross section that closes an opening end of the container 18. The actuator 1 is fixed at a position shifted from a geometric center of the fan-shaped cross section on a bottom surface of the container 18 via a base 2.

The Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) provides a complete and substantial encasement system which can be secured about a Drone, protecting a multitude of aircraft components from contact with any outside disturbance and which can protect the sensitive components from dust, water, wind, rain, snow, fingers, toes, appendages of any kind, and atmospheric changes as example, from disabling the Drone and can protect people, places or things from high velocity spinning exposed rotor/propellers. The MRSS provides rigid non-permeable platform for attaching or incorporating additional safety devices as found in the Drone industry (or other industries) resulting in a safety device that completely prevents the loss a Drone due to the catastrophic failure of any Drone system or combination of systems which would typically result in rapid decent, and/or uncontrolled flight. The MRSS makes Drones safe near humans and safe to use around public gatherings, stadium events, accident scenes, disaster search and rescue and disaster relief, and indoors for the security and communications markets among others expanding the availability of Drones to further assist humanity.

An intelligent electronic speed control (IESC) was developed that combines telemetry data from sensors on a small UAV with an intelligent rule set extracted from a trained artificial neural network (ANN) to detect and isolate faults and to predict future failures. IESCs integrated into the UAV's electronic architecture can serve to enhance UAV safety and reduce injury to personnel and damage to property by predicting failures and preventing accidents before they occur.

A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle includes assessing whether the UAV is within a flight-restriction region and, based on the assessment, generating signals that cause the UAV to take a flight response measure when within the flight-restriction region. The flight-restriction region is generated based on a location of a reference restriction feature and a functional parameter of the reference restriction feature.

A repeatably reconfigurable robot, comprising at least two printed circuit board (PCB) rigid sections, at least one PCB flexible section coupled to the at least two PCB rigid sections, at least one wheel, hybrid wheel propeller, wheel and propeller, or hybrid wheel screw propeller rotatably coupled to at least one of the at least two PCB rigid sections and at least one actuator coupled to the at least two PCB rigid sections, wherein the at least one actuator folds and unfolds the repeatably reconfigurable robot.

An unmanned aerial vehicle includes a plurality of arm units, each having a rotary wing, a motor, and an arm main body and detachably coupled to a main body; the main body having a plurality of receptacles for coupling to the arm units; and a battery unit detachably coupled to the main body to be exposed to outside, in which at least a part of the battery unit is exposed to outside when the battery unit is coupled to the main body.

This disclosure describes an aerial vehicle that includes a light alteration assembly that may be used to alter light entering a lens of a camera of the aerial vehicle. The light alteration assembly may include an adjustable visor and/or filters that may be selectively positioned over the lens of the camera. By altering light entering the lens of a camera of the aerial vehicle, the camera is able to obtain higher quality images of the area surrounding the aerial vehicle. The higher quality images may then be processed to accurately detect objects within a vicinity of the aerial vehicle.

This disclosure generally relates to aerial vehicles that may convert from hover-mode to missile-mode flight and back via body tilt for efficient flight and can strike wires such that neither the wires nor the aircraft are damaged, and divergence is prevented. This includes an aerial vehicle having an elongate fuselage having a nose tip, a plurality of engines connected to the fuselage, and at least three protective members connected substantially near the nose tip of the fuselage longitudinally beyond the plurality of engines.

This disclosure generally relates to aerial vehicles that may convert from hover-mode to missile-mode flight and back via body tilt for efficient flight and can strike wires such that neither the wires nor the aircraft are damaged, and divergence is prevented. This includes an aerial vehicle having an elongate fuselage having a nose tip, a plurality of engines connected to the fuselage, and at least three protective members connected substantially near the nose tip of the fuselage longitudinally beyond the plurality of engines.

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a multicopter section for flying in air with an attached blower section for generating an air stream for blowing dust off surfaces. A flight controller controls the multicopter section, a blower controller controls the blower section, and a power supply supplies power to the multicopter and blower sections. The flight controller and the blower controller are connected, and the blower controller is adapted to supply blower control commands to the flight controller to compensate for the thrust of the air stream from the blower section by flight control of the multicopter section. The UAV may be enclosed by a protective cage in the form of a meshed polyhedron, wherein the rods of the meshes are elastically connected at the respective nodes.