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Cyclogyro
- themodelplumber 8y agoI heard that this can work pretty well for really small (insect size?) UAVs, lending additional stability. However, there isn't much information I could find online about this. One of those moments when you wonder if you were taking to someone who slightly misrepresented their government job role.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThere's more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorotor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorotor. Turns out a cyclogyro is an aircraft that uses cyclorotors. (I wonder if the submission link shouldn't be replaced.)
- jhanschoo 8y agoThis looks like way too many moving parts for small UAVs though.
- kijin 8y agoLooks like the pitch of each blade needs to be adjusted very precisely while the blades revolve around the axis at a high RPM. That's tens of thousands of adjustments per second. This would have been nearly impossible in the past, but a raspi on a drone coupled with tiny motors in each blade might be able to pull it off.
- taneq 8y agoWouldn't it be adjusted by a single mechanism, similar to a helicopter swash plate, rather than individual servos?
- exDM69 8y agoThe animation on the wiki page shows how the blade pitch is adjusted mechanically. Helicopter blade pitch also changes as the blade rotates and it's done mechanically with a swashplate.
- anotheryou 8y agoamazing example https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCiU71GFs4Fs&ved=0ahUKEwjorPucsYDeAhXNalAKHRNSASoQo7QBCCUwAA&usg=AOvVaw1MalWoO3YrfLegBLgX9dzB https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... blimp that needs to do the cyclo thing to stay on the ground, than reverses lift to carry twice the heliums bouancy. sry for the Google link, I'm on mobile
- agumonkey 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbn0Bnt3iDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbn0Bnt3iDs
- IgorPartola 8y agoI read a comment once by a helicopter pilot that said that helicopters don’t fly, they beat air into submission. Seems to check out with this design.
- shove 8y agoMy uncle is an airplane pilot and his joke goes that helicopters are so ugly that the earth naturally repels them