Can I switch between a heli mode (twin prop) using the elevator as roll control then, after building speed, manually or automatically switch it to plane mode where it would use the speed differences in the propellers for roll movements and the elevator for pitch. Also the rotors would be on tilt motors that would need to be thrust vectoring I believe. I saw a tilt rotor wing design and was wondering if this hardware can do the same thing.
I found a video yet I'm updating this post so I haven't watched it yet but this is the plane I was speaking of.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/06/drone-archaeology
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Here's the details:
http://www.aurora.aero/Common/Downloads/Products/Skate.pdf
Long story short, the hardware could do this, but the software can't at this point. It's certainly doable, but nobody has gone and done it yet. Seems this is more like an airplane than a copter. I'd start with the airplane code.
I'm having a hard time perfectly understanding the configuration but in any case, I'm sure we don't support that. Anything is possible but you'll have to find a coder to write a new AP_Motors class to handle that.
Sounds cool of course.
Seems like there's a bit of over promising in that article when it claims when complete, the drone can take the equivalent of "3 seasons of picture" in only 10min. That's a bit much...