The "Flying Ball"!



This flying ball is invented by Sato Humiyuki and developed by the Japanese TRDI. It is very stable and robust. It has a single propeller and downstream control vanes. Maybe it cannot do advanced aerobatics like a quad but it is very simple and could be better at most applications, especially in urban environment or indoors.
More info at robots.net / robotspodcast.com/news/
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  • But it is really protected against crashes!
  • The innovation of this project is specifically the enclosure of a single prop with guiding vanes inside a spherical exoskeleton that can be rotate and passively find its right posture. Nothing more, nothing less :P
  • Also invented by Hiller circa 1940?
  • @jab

    a bit to big for my garden :)

  • I want to make a smaller one and make it look like a SGU kino. lol
  • T3
    There was a video last year of a flying can that went around that was very similar.
  • I believe that is simply the camera
  • 3692222077?profile=originalI wonder what that sensor is?  (Thermopile ..Baro ?)
  • A very similar vehicle (if not exactly same), called (mini)Vertigo was developed in SUPAERO, Toulouse by Prof. Jean-Mark Moschetta and his team about 5-6 years ago. They are still using this for research.

    @Joel Venable:

    This certainly has gyros in it. You wont be able to control it manually. The wobbliness is because of the dynamics of the control. Those control surfaces are not fast enough. ..I think

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