Provided are methods, apparatus and articles for vehicles, such as or relating to a skid-plate shock absorber, body mounting, chassis assembly, component securing, engine mounting, slipper clutch, and transmission housing that may be employed in the assembly, operation, and control of vehicles.

A flying toy system capable of independently hovering at a programmable height and respond to the manipulations and/or actions of one or more users through their fingers or similar digit extensions, all while continuing an autonomous flight regime.

A quadrotor UAV including ruggedized, integral-battery, load-bearing body, two arms on the load-bearing body, each arm having two rotors, a control module mounted on the load-bearing body, a payload module mounted on the control module, and skids configured as landing gear. The two arms are replaceable with arms having wheels for ground vehicle use, with arms having floats and props for water-surface use, and with arms having pitch-controlled props for underwater use. The control module is configured to operate as an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned ground vehicle, an unmanned (water) surface vehicle, and an unmanned underwater vehicle, depending on the type of arms that are attached.

An example system for racing aircraft systems includes: a plurality of autonomous synchronized unmanned aircraft systems configured to form a swarm at a race course through which the aircraft systems are to navigate; and a controller configured to be operatively coupled to at least one unmanned aircraft system of the swarm, the controller configured to control the swarm to form an element of the race course.

Concerning a partial area image that constitutes a wide area image, to measure an elapsed time from a past point of time of image capturing and control a flying body in accordance with the elapsed time, an information processing apparatus includes a wide area image generator that extracts, from a flying body video obtained when a flying body captures a ground area spreading below while moving, a plurality of video frame images and combines the video frame images, thereby generating a captured image in a wide area, an elapsed time measurer that measures an elapsed time from an image capturing time by the flying body for each of the plurality of video frame images, and an output unit that outputs the elapsed time for each video frame image together with position information of the flying body at the time of capturing of the video frame image.

There is provided a control device including an image display unit configured to acquire, from a flying body, an image captured by an imaging device provided in the flying body and to display the image, and a flight instruction generation unit configured to generate a flight instruction for the flying body based on content of an operation performed with respect to the image captured by the imaging device and displayed by the image display unit.

An unmanned vehicle including a body and a frame structure extending from the body and supporting a plurality of propeller assemblies, each propeller assembly including at least one propeller and a corresponding motor with the motor housed in a watertight housing or coated and made corrosion resistant. The propellers comprise a first subset of propellers of the propeller assemblies and a second subset of propellers of the propeller assemblies which rotate in a plane positioned below a plane in which the first subset of propellers rotate, wherein said first and second subset of propellers are configured for independent operation of one another as the vehicle transitions from an air medium to a water medium.

A method for supporting image processing for a movable object includes acquiring one or more images captured by an imaging device borne by the movable object. The imaging device is at least partially blocked by an obstructive object attached to the movable object. The method further includes applying a template to the one or more images to obtain one or more projected locations of the obstructive object within the one or more images and detecting at least portion of the obstructive object at the one or more projected locations within the one or more images.

A method for providing host instructions to a control module of a modular assembly system is provided. A graphical programming environment including sets of first and second graphical representations is presented to a user. Each first graphical representation corresponds to a statement block comprising a parameter. Each second graphical representation corresponds to one of assembly modules associated with a property. A user is facilitated to select at least one of the first graphical representations and provide values to the parameter of each selected first graphical representation. The user is facilitated to provide values to the property of one or more of the second graphical representations. Based on at least the selected first and second graphical representations and the provided values thereof, a set of host instructions are generated. The set of host instructions are transmitted to the control module for controlling operation of the assembly modules.

The present invention relates to the field of an unmanned aerial vehicle, and provides a remote control including: a remote control body and a control lever assembly at least partially accommodated in the remote control body; the control lever assembly including: a housing disposed in the remote control body; a rotating member disposed in the housing and rotatably connected to the housing; and a control lever connected to the rotating member, the control lever driving the rotating member to rotate around at least one direction relative to the housing; and the control lever having a handle and a dust-proof portion connected to the handle, the rotating member being connected to the dust-proof portion, the dust-proof portion being partially accommodated in the housing, and the rotating member being shielded by the dust-proof portion. Through the control lever assembly of the remote control, on the one hand, some external sand or moisture may be prevented from entering, on the other hand, an appearance of the control lever assembly may be better optimized, and the user who performs an operation may intuitively feel that the control lever rotates around a rotating center, providing better user experience.