Fancy twisting wing from MIT
“We want to build small-scale UAVs that can fly quickly through indoor and/or cluttered environments, but controlling these UAVs is very different than controlling a fighter jet flying up above the clouds,” said Dr. Russ Tedrake, X Consortium associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and the MURI lead. “To be successful, we have to solve a number of incredibly hard problems in computer vision and nonlinear control. This long-term project lets us focus on the basic research questions that will lead to fundamental results and, ultimately, dramatic new capabilities for UAVs.”
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http://www.suasnews.com/2012/07/17753/birds-perceptual-and-maneuver...
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Comment by Jack Crossfire on July 25, 2012 at 4:26pm -
Getting actuators small enough & powerful enough to articulate the entire wing is a buster.
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Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on July 25, 2012 at 5:34pm -
Man, that reminds me, a few years ago I was trying to get into Enduro motorcycle racing. The courses often involved driving between trees set closer than the handlebar width. Figure that out one. :eek:
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Comment by Carl La France on July 26, 2012 at 7:30pm -
Good post Gary ! It would have been neat if the mechanical bird did a 180 and came back through the course at the same speed braked and landed on the take off pedestal instead of unceremonious hitting the net Hey R Lefebvre when did you find out the trees were to close? before hand? or when you got there on the bike at speed ! do you have permanently raked handle bars ? You guys have a great day!
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