Development of a Hexacopter with a Set of Tilt-rotor Mechanisms
Norifumi MURATA, Keigo Watanabe, Satoshi Kato, Isaku Nagai · The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec) · 2020
Multicopters can vertically take off and land (VTOL) and have high hovering capabilities. For this reason, VTOL aircrafts have been receiving attention as a means of transportation that has to be developed. In this study, it is aimed at developing a partially tilted type hexacopter that can fly stably without tilting the fuselage by partially tilting the rotors. This aircraft switches the flight mode from a vertical flight to a horizontal flight by changing a set of tilt rotors simultaneously. In this paper, the proposed hexacopter is first outlined, and the flight principle is explained. In addition, the operation experiments on the manufactured aircraft are reported, together with giving their considerations.