US 12,441,468 B2
Bio-inspired flapping wing/fin robotic platform
Xiaozhou Fan, Pasadena, CA (US); and Kenneth Breuer, Newton, MA (US)
Assigned to Brown University, Providence, RI (US)
Filed by Brown University, Providence, RI (US)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/514,625.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/384,357, filed on Nov. 18, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0166347 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. B64C 33/02 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 33/02 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A three degrees-of freedom robotic flapper comprising:
a fuselage, the fuselage housing motors and driving trains;
a left wing attached to the fuselage; and
a right wing attached to the fuselage, the left wing and the right wing configured to perform a wing flapping motion, a wing twisting motion and a wing folding motion, the wing twisting motion actuated by a Bowden cable.