Hey, I had to get my roof repaired, and so I took my quad up for a little roof inspection afterwards. Worked great. I reckon you could sell this as a package to roofing companies. That way they could show home owners how bad their roofs are and why they need repair, and then show them how great it looks when all the work is done.
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Hey that's awesome, I think your customers will love it.
I worked, for a short time, with a company doing insurance repairs on roofs. Having done damage inspection in the past, I did initial assessment work for them, looking at storm tracks, going into the field, driving up and down storm hit streets, and giving them a "map" of what houses to send sales associates to first. I always thought a camera equipped UAV would make a great "high ground" tool for an overview of a neighborhood. I never really considered individual home inspections.
Yes indeed. Make them a tool that saves lives, much harder to ban that way.
@ Chris,
Interesting, I've been thinking of a ruggedized, tethered, ground powered, blade protected multicopter capable of serious "work" for some time now.
Was even contemplating small diameter high pressure "fluid" hose.
Tree trimming, window washing, house washing, even house painting.
You might even be able to get some leniency from the FAA for tethered use that met mutually agreed criteria.
Was thinking of a protected multicopter head with a centrally mounted gimbal for an under carriage that would contain the robotic working "tools" and support the Tether, power line, hose stuff.
An intelligent power reel could feed tether and if you used a portable mast, could even do a fast retreive in the event of catastrophic failure.
An Octocopter format could permit recovery with a single motor failure and Electronic redundancy could reduce risk.
The Motors and most of the stuff you need to do this already exist.
You want something real for Multicopters to do, don't make them a drone, make them a tool.
This is a building inspection I did with my friend Mike, lovely place in Scotland 2010 and at that time I was playing with structure from motion via photosynth.
The point cloud looks pretty cool http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=8ae7f1f4-3c11-41bf-aa55-ef694af...
Next you will be telling me she does not let them clean the chimneys.
Gary, absolutely on the children, but due to silly concerns by their mother they're not allowed to hang off the roof and do the top floors. Dunno why I had them really. Useless. Gotta get a robot to do a kid's work!
Chris that's tech too far it's why we had children isn't it? You know how they are looking for sounds for electric cars to make as they drive about. Well your window-o-matic must carry a speaker and sound this out as it flies.
Something crawling and clinging to a roof to paint it would be handy. I hate getting up there to do that job. Folks are already thinking about spotting cracks http://www.ewshm2012.com/Portals/98/BB/th2b1.pdf
Gary, seriously, I'm working on a window-cleaning UAV, with a tether giving power and water. Based on a ducted fan and shaped like a can with a couple wiper blades sticking out. Just trying to get the "handle of the squeegee" steering interface right. Killer app for domestic UAVs!
Building inspections are exactly what I had in mind for the latest T3, the qube one. Obviously we don't all live in cubes but you have to start somewhere. In the not too distant future I see an entire class of UA that hugs a building doing its thing and staying outside of aviation regulation.
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