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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
XI'AN, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — In a breakthrough in biotech robotics, a team of Chinese scientists has developed a robot that can fly autonomously like a bird.
The new robot, dubbed RoboFalcon2.0, mimics the wing movements of birds and bats, achieving controlled flight through a new reconfigurable mechanism.
A study published in the journal Science Advances details how the robot reproduces the FSF (flap-swing-fold) motion observed in flying vertebrates during slow flight.
Flying vertebrates typically use complex wingbeat kinematics during hovering, takeoff, and landing, which differs from the flight mechanisms of insects. To improve aerodynamic performance at low flight speeds, they employ forward downward flapping movements and aerodynamically inactive upward flapping movements.
Researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University have created a conical turning mechanism that combines the flap-swing-fold motion during a single wing-beat cycle, mimicking the kinematics of slow vertebrate flight.
According to the study, real-world flights confirmed RoboFalcon2.0's ability to take off independently.
This innovative move could inspire developers to create agile, bird-style vehicles using flight principles similar to those of vertebrates, allowing for more biomimetic designs of flapping robots. -0-
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