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VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDING MULTIMODAL, MULTIENVIRONMENT, GYROPENDULAR CRAFT WITH COMPENSATORY PROPULSION AND FLUIDIC GRADIENT COLLIMATION

  • US 20130206915A1
  • Filed: 04/20/2011
  • Published: 08/15/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. ) A vertical take-off and landing multimodal, multi-media, gyropendular craft platform with compensatory propulsion and fluidic gradient collimation device characterized in that it includes:

  • an upper propulsion group (1) providing vertical thrust, adjustable according to the three-axis, consisting of a certain number of motorizations (1) or (37) or (41) or (43) or propulsors (142) or (165) enabling;

    to bring the craft platform or drone at a certain altitude, depth or position in space and to maintain it, to navigate according to a flight trajectory in three-dimensional space into any physical environment associated to a specific fluid, under sustentation in the air or other atmosphere, or floating in the water or any other liquid in immersed mode or not, or in the outer space vacuum subject to a gravitational field or weightless,a device for lower propulsion (7) as a supplement for vertical thrust, adjustable according to the three-axis, consisting of a number of motorizations (7) or (38) or (44) or propulsors (7) or (129) or (147) or (158) enabling to maintain or change the orientation of the craft platform or drone, and to navigate according to a flight trajectory in three-dimensional space into any physical environment associated with a specific fluid, under sustentation in the air or other atmosphere, or floating in the water or any other liquid in immersed or mode, or in the outer space vacuum subject to a gravitational field or weightless,within the motorizations or propulsors, having rotating wings or not, a certain number of single or contra-rotating propellers, with curved pale or not, or gas rotary nozzles or not, or helical turbine, or turbines vanes, or turboprop, or turbojet engine, ramjet, or rocket engines,an 3D dynamically articulated central body (2) or (119) or (120), full or hollow, rigid or semi-rigid of variable flexibility, as a vertebral structure for performing a function of stabilization and support of the platform'"'"'s configuration in progress in a fluid, by real-time adaptation of its geometry and the position of its centre of gravity during the flight trajectory, then decorrelate the respective attitudes of the upper (1) and lower (7) propulsion groups and lower inertial rotary disk (3),an axial turbine, located on the structure of the vertebral structure at a specific position, of smaller diameter than the upper propulsion group but with higher rotation speed, with a structure having curved lamellae oriented toward the bottom generating a cone of fluidic thrust (177), complete the vertical thrust of upper (175) and lower (180) propulsion groups, and enables being contra-rotating (34) in regards of the upper propulsion group to perform an auxiliary compensation function of the induced gyroscopic torque (178), then allows by translation motion (32) along the axis of the 3D central articulated body to optimize the position of the centre of gravity of the platform,an inertial rotary disk (3) hosting the cockpit (4) of the payload (5), and attached to adjustable telescopic orientable rods (6) or (29) with 3D ball-joints, allows to change the position of the centre of gravity of the drone, and to support and orient the lower propulsors (7), while maintaining the attitude of the payload (5) and of its internal devices, namely flight navigation control and stabilization (61), synchronization (60), detection and interception (62) and telecommunications (64), by using an attitude correction function of “

    steadicam”

    type carried out by 3D ball-joints,a gyropendular inertial stabilization device (63) integrating gyroscope and pendulum Foucault'"'"'s functions implemented within the platform itself through the vertebral structure or 3D central articulated body, involving adaptation mechanisms of the centre of gravity (84) and compensation of induced couples or moments (79), (80), (82), (83), (85) and (87),a fluidic collimation gradient device (91), integrating an alignment mechanism (94) of the fluid columns (89), (92), (93), (173), (175), (177), (179) and (180) circulating in free-space and across upper (90) and lower (93) propulsion groups, experiencing an axial turbo-compression (89), (90), (92) and (93) associated to a “

    Venturi effect”

    , generates a moment of fluidic stabilization (94) between upper and lower propulsion groups, which has for effect to improve the stability and vertical thrust of the platform,a device for real-time control of autonomous navigation or not (61), gyropendular inertial stabilization (59) and (61), synchronization (60) and collimation of fluidic gradient, integrated into a FPGA type programmable logic component (65) housed in the payload (5), allowing the platform to change its geometry in real time during the flight trajectory and to adapt the position of the centre of gravity according to the context defined by abrupt changes of strong intensity of the fluidic navigation support;

    air, or water or outer space vacuum as the case may be, all that ensuring take-off and navigation in the following environment;

    aerial, marine, underwater or outer space, according to a specific flight plan, as well as landing, or sea-landing or deck landing, or to be put in a geostationary orbit or not, or moon landing, or laying on a star or a planet, as well as the stability of the apparatus or the drone and its payload,a cylindrical cavity device in the centre of the upper propulsion group to accommodate safety devices in the event of sinking (parachute, inflatable ascending stratospheric balloon, distress rocket, laser tracking or interception module, radio frequency alert module, . . . ),a safety device with inflatable balloon (27) and (29) on the outskirts of the upper propulsion group to ensure buoyancy in case of failure,a payload (5) with a cylindrical housing device to accommodate many other devices (control, visualization, detection, interception, airbags cushioning when reaching ground),a device umbrella semi-rigid lamellae to slow down the fall in case of failure or economy mode,enabling navigation according to a complex flight plan into different physical environments of the following type;

    air, sea, or underwater or outer space, subject to strong disturbances meteorological or astrophysical, with a precise real-time trajectory control completed throughout the various phases;

    take-off, landing, sea-landing, deck landing, moon landing or when put into orbit, and stability in terms of position and attitude of gyropendular craft platform or drone and its payload or applicative load supporting the following functions;

    search and rescue, exploration, navigation, transportation, scenes monitoring, and deployment of telecommunications infrastructure free space.

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