论文标题
迈向可食用的无人机进行救援任务：营养翅膀的设计和飞行
Towards edible drones for rescue missions: design and flight of nutritional wings
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论文摘要
无人机已证明是无人运输任务（例如食物和医疗供应交付）的有用飞机。可以利用这是为在紧急情况下为人们提供挽救生命的营养和医学。但是，商业无人机通常只能将自己的质量的10％ - 30％作为有效载荷，这限制了一次飞行中的食物交付量。一种新颖的解决方案可以明显增加无人机的食品携带比，它是用可食用的材料重新创建无人机（例如机翼）的某些结构。因此，我们提出了一架无人机，它不再是运输飞机的无人机，而是部分可食用的无人机，由于其可食用的翅膀，其携带食品的质量比将其增加到50％。此外，如果在紧急情况下执行其任务后，可食用的无人机在环境中被抛在落后，它将比不可用的同类产品更具生物降解，而在环境中浪费较少。在这里，我们描述了材料的选择和可食用机翼的可扩展设计，并在具有飞行能力的原型中验证该方法，该原型可以提供300 kcal并携带80克水的有效载荷。
Drones have shown to be useful aerial vehicles for unmanned transport missions such as food and medical supply delivery. This can be leveraged to deliver life-saving nutrition and medicine for people in emergency situations. However, commercial drones can generally only carry 10 % - 30 % of their own mass as payload, which limits the amount of food delivery in a single flight. One novel solution to noticeably increase the food-carrying ratio of a drone, is recreating some structures of a drone, such as the wings, with edible materials. We thus propose a drone, which is no longer only a food transporting aircraft, but itself is partially edible, increasing its food-carrying mass ratio to 50 %, owing to its edible wings. Furthermore, should the edible drone be left behind in the environment after performing its task in an emergency situation, it will be more biodegradable than its non-edible counterpart, leaving less waste in the environment. Here we describe the choice of materials and scalable design of edible wings, and validate the method in a flight-capable prototype that can provide 300 kcal and carry a payload of 80 g of water.
