video: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/scp-anh032717.php
Hybrid UAVs with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability as well as cruise flying capabilities have attracted the worldwide research interest. However, it is a great challenge to combine the two functionalities effectively into one single UAV, not to mention automating it. In 2016, the research group led by Professor Ben M. CHEN from NUS have conquered the difficulty by designing a novel reconfigurable structured UAV, U-Lion and successfully automated it. The technology developed has great potential in many applications.
Their research result has been published in Science China Information Sciences, Volume 60, Issue 3, 2017.
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