Abstract:
A rotary-wing drone includes a drone body that includes an electronic board controlling the piloting of the drone, and four link arms that include a rigidly connected propulsion unit. The link arms form lift-producing wings.
Abstract:
The imaging assembly includes: a multi-band sensor (5), comprising a plurality of light sensors (7) each for measuring a light intensity returned by a target (8) in a predetermined frequency band; a sunlight detector (9), comprising a plurality of control sensors (11) each for measuring an ambient light intensity in one of the predetermined bands of frequencies of the multi-band sensor (5) each associated with a band-pass filtre; an electronic module (13) configured so as to calculate at least one characteristic variable value of the light intensity returned by the target (8) in each predetermined frequency band; the sunlight detector (9) comprising a box casing (21), the control sensors (11) being attached to the box casing (21), the band-pass filtres (17) being attached to the box casing (21) each one so as to be facing the photosensitive surface of the associated control sensor.
Abstract:
The drone comprises a camera (14), an inertial unit (46) measuring the drone angles, and an extractor module (52) delivering image data of a mobile capture area of reduced size dynamically displaced in a direction opposite to that of the angle variations measured by the inertial unit. Compensator means (52) receive as an input the current drone attitude data and acting dynamically on the current value (54) of an imaging parameter such as auto-exposure, white balance or autofocus, calculated as a function of the image data contained in the capture area.
Abstract:
A drone propulsion unit includes a propeller with a hub and a plurality of blades, an electric motor with a motor support, and a motor control device, wherein the electric motor includes a fixed part with a stator connected to the motor support and a mobile part with a rotor mobile about an axis of rotation for driving the propeller, the propeller includes a blade with a plurality of electroluminescent diodes and a diode control device, the motor includes a hollow central shaft, and the motor support includes a communication device adapted to communicate with a communication device integrated in the propeller, with the communication devices being positioned on either side of the hollow shaft.
Abstract:
The headset includes an active noise control with an internal microphone (28) and an external microphone (32). A processor (42) comprises a feedback branch (46), adjusted so as to attenuate the low frequencies corresponding to a component of a voice signal transmitted by bone conduction, and a feedforward branch (58) adjusted so as to compensate for the attenuation introduced by the feedback filtering and the passive acoustic attenuation introduced between the outside and the inside of the headset. A voice activity detector (60) operates a dynamic switching between two couples (HFB, HFF) of different transfer functions applied to the feedback (46) and feedforward (58) functions. This allows rendering in the most natural way possible to the user all the external sounds, including his own voice.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method, implemented in a drone piloting device (16), of loading satellite ephemeris data, the drone (10) comprising a geolocation module, the method comprising a step of establishing a communication between the piloting device (16) and the drone (10) according to a given communication mode. The method further comprises the following steps implemented in the piloting device: loading ephemeris data (E26) from a remote server (32) connected to a communication network (30), and sending the loaded ephemeris data (E25) to said drone. The invention has also for object a method of loading satellite ephemeris data, implemented in a drone, for updating ephemeris data of a geolocation module.
Abstract:
The inertial unit, IMU, of the drone is mounted on a main circuit board. The IMU (26) includes an internal temperature sensor delivering a chip temperature signal (θ°chip). A heating component (36) is mounted on the circuit board near the IMU, and it is provided a thermal guide, incorporated to the circuit board, extending between the heating component and the IMU so as to allow a transfer to the IMU of the heat produced by the heating component. This thermal guide may in particular be a metal planar layer incorporated to the board, in particular a ground plane. A thermal regulation circuit (44-62) receives as an input the chip temperature signal (θchip) and a set-point temperature signal (θ°ref), and delivers a piloting signal (TH_PWM) of the heating component, so as to control the heat supply to the IMU. It is in particular possible to use this fast increase in temperature to perform a complete calibration of the IMU in a few minutes.
Abstract:
A vertical-view camera (16) delivers an image signal (ScamV) of the ground overflown by the drone. Gyrometric sensors (102) measure the Euler angles (φ, θ, Ψ) characterizing the attitude of the drone and delivering a gyrometric signal (Sgyro) representative of the instantaneous rotations. Rotation compensation means (136) receive the image signal and the gyrometric signal and deliver retimed image data, compensated for the rotations, then used to estimate the horizontal speeds of the drone. The camera and the inertial unit are piloted by a common clock (160), and it is provided a circuit (170) for determining the value of the phase-shift between the gyrometric signal and the image signal, and to apply this phase-shift value at the input of the rotation compensation means (136) to resynchronize the image signal onto the gyrometric signal before computation of the retimed image data.