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Singapore University of Technology & Design create the world's first flexible drone

Engineers at Singapore University of Technology and Design have created a simple, inexpensive drone that can literally be rolled up when not in use and just as easy to deploy for launch. The drone design is not new – it is a repeat of the pattern of the impeller seeds, eg maple. New is a flexible segmented wing that allows the drone to be rolled up for transport.

These solutions, called monocopters, were developed by the US military about ten years ago to fly over enemy territory and collect intelligence data. It's very easy to equip these drones with handles, because they rotate during flight and don't require additional mechanisms to use LiDAR sensors. For aerial photography, conventional cameras don't work, but general vision cameras do the trick.

The prototype created at the university is manually retrieved from the container. Engineers promise to create a simple design to fire drones automatically using compressed air. All of this, including the cost of parts for monodontics, is so cheap that monodentals can be manufactured in unlimited quantities for a number of useful applications. They can solve not just military tasks.

For example, meteorological probes with very expensive equipment are constantly being launched into the stratosphere. After the balloon casing ruptures, the equipment simply breaks down, while the aerodynamically monocopters are able to land smoothly, saving the most valuable modules for reuse, and the ability to move in a certain direction will not allow them to land in difficult places. access or at sea.

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