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This is pretty cool. TLDR: in the case of failure, the quadcoptor starts to tumble, just like a rocket reentering our atmosphere from a launch. Except unlike wi
by akiselev 13y ago
This is pretty cool. TLDR: in the case of failure, the quadcoptor starts to tumble, just like a rocket reentering our atmosphere from a launch. Except unlike with a rocket, the quadcoptor uses the remaining motors to keep itself quasi-stable while tumbling. This keeps the quadcoptor rotating around the path of descent and you can tweak the rotation through the last remaining motors in order to change the over all flight path.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSo its attempting to solve the issue that a quadcoptor can't autorotate to the ground in the event of failure like a helicopter can. Interesting!
- CamperBob2 13y agoThis seems like an effect that would scale with the number of rotors. Makes me wonder about the prospects of a craft with enough small rotors to approximate a sphere.