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The "Flying Ball"!

Posted by IKE on June 10, 2011 at 7:04am


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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  • IKE June 11, 2011 at 11:34am
    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
  • robert bouwens June 11, 2011 at 3:54am

    @jab

    a bit to big for my garden :)

  • Mathew krawczun June 10, 2011 at 8:47pm
    I want to make a smaller one and make it look like a SGU kino. lol
  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland June 10, 2011 at 5:12pm

    The real thing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh9dhBJY010

  • IKE June 10, 2011 at 4:21pm
    I believe that is simply the camera
  • Michael Zaffuto June 10, 2011 at 4:05pm
    3692222077?profile=originalI wonder what that sensor is?  (Thermopile ..Baro ?)
  • Roman Krashanitsa June 10, 2011 at 3:38pm

    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

  • Joel Venable June 10, 2011 at 2:28pm

    http://youtu.be/RoY4s0Oeuv8

     

    Rather like this?

  • robert bouwens June 10, 2011 at 1:01pm

    kkmulticopter

    look for the single copter.

    you can build it :-)

    kkmulticopter.kr
    This domain may be for sale!
  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland June 10, 2011 at 12:06pm

    Gary is right, this is a hovering 3D airplane that has been refined to do hovering very well at the expense of normal flying. Actually reminds me of a for fun project I did some years ago. A flying Christmas tree for the Weekly indoor flying sessions at the local rc club that used the same principle if somewhat simplified.

    3692221780?profile=original

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