Quadrotor Balances Inverted Pendulum
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 28 of July , 2010 at 3:57 pm
Quadrotors: they can do everything you can do, only better. Way better. Markus Hehn and Raffaello D’Andrea at the Institute of Dynamic System and Control at ETH Zurich have gone from dancing quadrotors to a quadrotor that can actually balance an inverted pendulum in flight. Impressive, yes. Useful? Maybe… If you have quadrotors that are trying to lift something unbalanced, for example, being able to compensate for that could certainly come in handy. Of course, all of this comes with the caveat that you need a pretty swanky external vision system to get it all working properly, but maybe if you mount that on a couple other quadrotors, you’d be good to go.
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