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Autonomous ornithopter capable of flapping and glidding

Posted by William Burns on December 13, 2010 at 5:24pm

Hi,
 
We, Aerospace Dept, developed the world's lightest weight ornithopter capable of flapping and glidding. see link below
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWf-rBL3OxA
 
We are aiming to make it autonomous.
 
We want to use the ardupilot in our ornithopter,

 

It probably will need a bit of programming to handle gliding, I would  expect the default behavior of an aircraft autopilot to keep the  throttle on all the time. Flapping is somewhat analogous to throttle on a normal airplane except for causing! changes to lift, that would probably work out of the box with some gain tuning. Navigation should work the same as an airplane which your micropilot seems to handle well.

 

Can you please help us with this problem since we are new to the autonomous world and were contolling our ornithopter only with a 6ch radio control.

Please reply me ASAP
 
Thanks!
 
William

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  • William Burns December 14, 2010 at 6:55am

    Thanks Cliff!

     

    I contacted fahpah company, and they told me to contact.

     

    Here's their message below:

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    you should post query for this on DIYDrones.com who is main producer of ArduPilot Mega autopilot system. We are their partner company and producing air frames for ArduCopter and some electronics for them.

    But as I was reading your requirements, I think ArduPilot Mega software would do most of your needs even now, you only might need to re-program motor commands and some control functions. Everything else should work our from the box.

    Best regards,
    FP Store
    --

     

    I hope you people reply me

  • Cliff Dearden December 14, 2010 at 12:05am

    Sorry can't help with the autonomous flight but I just wanted to say what a great job!

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