Aerospace Engineering

Robotics and Rotorcraft

Robotics is an engineering discipline that deals with the conception, design, construction, and operation of robots. The goal of robotics is to develop intelligent devices that can help people in a number of ways. Robotics can come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Robotics is the study of the design, building, and use of machines (robots) to do jobs that were previously performed by humans. Robots are commonly utilized in areas such as vehicle manufacturing to perform simple repetitive jobs, as well as in businesses where workers must work in dangerous situations.

A rotorcraft, often known as a rotary-wing aircraft, is a heavier-than-air, aircraft having rotary wings or rotor blades that rotate around a vertical mast to generate lift. A rotor is a combination of several rotor blades set on a single mast. "Supported in flight by the responses of the air on one or more rotors," according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Helicopters, autogyros, and gyrodynes are examples of rotorcraft. Additional propulsion engines, propellers, or static lifting surfaces are used in compound rotorcraft to supplement the rotor. The Bernoulli Principle, which applies to wings, creates lift. Because of a link known as the Bernoulli Principle, wings provide lift. The Bernoulli Principle defines the relationship between air speed and pressure. To produce lift, an airplane must fly fast enough to move enough air over its wings. By rotating its blades, a helicopter propels air over its rotor.