TY - GEN
T1 - Development and Flight Experiments of a Bluff-bodied X4-Blimp
AU - Watanabe, Keigo
AU - Niwa, Kenjiro
AU - Nagai, Isaku
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - The body of X4-blimp using four propellers manufactured in conventional research was a structure which has arranged four envelopes in which the buoyancy was equally divided centering on the gondola to which the propeller was attached. However, with this structure, the variation in the buoyancy arose among four envelopes, and there was a problem to which the body posture becomes unstable. In this research, it returns to the starting point which arranges one envelope at the center of the body, and the body of a fundamental structure of the non-streamline is developed, in which the number of envelopes is suppressed to the minimum, and the variation in the buoyancy is avoided by attaching the special frame which can carry four propellers in the circumference of the envelope. The validity of the manufactured body is demonstrated through some flight experiments.
AB - The body of X4-blimp using four propellers manufactured in conventional research was a structure which has arranged four envelopes in which the buoyancy was equally divided centering on the gondola to which the propeller was attached. However, with this structure, the variation in the buoyancy arose among four envelopes, and there was a problem to which the body posture becomes unstable. In this research, it returns to the starting point which arranges one envelope at the center of the body, and the body of a fundamental structure of the non-streamline is developed, in which the number of envelopes is suppressed to the minimum, and the variation in the buoyancy is avoided by attaching the special frame which can carry four propellers in the circumference of the envelope. The validity of the manufactured body is demonstrated through some flight experiments.
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U2 - 10.1109/ARSO46408.2019.8948731
DO - 10.1109/ARSO46408.2019.8948731
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85078353384
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO
SP - 298
EP - 303
BT - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2019
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2019
Y2 - 31 October 2019 through 2 November 2019
ER -