Hi All,
Following Photoship One's "Deca-Copter" and the underlying
assumption that adding more rotors can decrease the power
requirements per motor/esc, while increasing redundancy (motor loss during flight),
also allowing a lighter frame design, comes the big "What If" question:
Can Arducopter do it too? perhaps with APM 2?
Some links for the kickoff:
DECACOPTER
http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=338127
(check out their 4+6 drive solution...)
DODECACOPTER
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1544139
(this is real aggressive one...)
and last but not least, e-Volo's
HEXADECACOPTER
http://www.e-volo.com/Home.html
Merry Xmas/Hanuka y'all!
Gil
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I would think the easiest way to make a dodecacopter or hexadecacopter with APM would be to simply use a hex or octo frame (respectively) with props both above and below the arms (i.e., like a y-6, but with 6 or 8 arms instead of 3).
I'm no expert, but I would think that such a design could potentially be implemented with minimal (may none) changes to the code!