--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, joshuawfinn@... wrote:
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> Now let's get back to the topic. That dragonfly is some amazing engineering. What kind of control system are they using on it?
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Based on the info on the website, it looks like control is via flapping rate, wing rotation, and head/tail movement. They indicate that it is fly-by-wire - i.e. it has a gyro or something to provide stable/autonomous flight, and that the controls just tell it where to go. Pretty impressive case of building on previous developments.
I'm surprised to see that is is 175 grams. That sounds like a lot of weight to support with those small flappers.
There are two categories of comments under the video that I find particularly amusing:
1) the people saying "fake". It certainly is getting harder these days to sort out real vs. fake (remember the flapping wing backpack with the Wii controller?) - however with Festo's other achievements I think it is pretty safe to believe them here.
2) the people who say "what practical value does this have?" and "it is just a pointless toy". I saw the same comments under the HPV helicopter videos. You'd think that with all the great new technology we have people would have a better understanding of how new ideas develop.
Received on Wed Apr 03 2013 - 10:46:52 CEST
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