This article describes a quadcopter drone with foldable arms, which we have named the Peregrine Falcon. It can take off from a moving vehicle by barrel launching and perform its mission in the air after autonomously spreading its arms. The design helps the drone to be put into operation quickly, which is a great advantage for applications in industries such as forest fire reconnaissance. This paper introduces the design process of the Peregrine Falcon from the aspects of structure, avionics and control algorithm, and proposes control compensation methods for the large attitude change generated during the barrel launching process and the vertical drift problem after impact, respectively. The stability and feasibility of the Peregrine Falcon in the static and dynamic launching process are verified by flying experiments.


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    Title :

    Peregrine Falcon: Design and Experimentation of a Folding and Launchable Quadcopter Drone


    Contributors:
    Guangxin Wu (author) / Xinbiao Pei (author) / Dong Wang (author) / Lijun Nan (author) / Hejia Zhou (author) / Yue Bai (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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