VOLIRO https://voliro-ethz.github.io Fokusprojekt ETH Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:22:58 +0000 de-CH hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 Final prototype assembled https://voliro-ethz.github.io/final-prototype-assembled/ https://voliro-ethz.github.io/final-prototype-assembled/#respond Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:35:32 +0000 https://voliro-ethz.github.io/?p=5379 We are really proud of having assembled our final prototype by now.
The rotor guards look really nice in combination with the complete system.

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Yesterday we managed to hover stable in different configurations for the first time in real life with external position estimation from the vicon cameras. It took us a long time but now we finally proved that hovering in different orientations is indeed possible with this system. So far the PID gains are the ones used in the simulation – pretty good result don’t you think?
Within the next weeks we’ll try to get it to fly even more stable by tuning the parameters.

And for sure landing needs to be improved as well 😉

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We are getting there – our own code is now running on the flight controller Pixhawk.

We are moving the drone in space to see if the rotors are tilted the right way for hovering. For the beginning we disconnected the motors for safety reasons – so far so good.

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First tilting test with our new Motors we got sponsored from Faulhaber. It works really well, they are strong and fast and very small so we can fit them inside the ‚arms‘.
Furthermore it looks really good with die hexagonal rotor protectors. The goal is to be able to start and land on three of them. Initially we wanted to make them round to have the advantage of having ducted fans which should increase the efficiency. After some tests we noticed that they would need to be quite huge to make a significant difference in efficiency, this means it they would be some kind of heavy aswell. That’s why we went with hexagonal ones cause they fit very well to our design.

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Yeeay – it’s working. Today we flew for the first time. What a great feeling. We used the controller which comes together with the pixhawk, but it won’t take long till we can try out some of our own controllers to be able to move the six servos as well and be even more maneuverable in the air.

]]> https://voliro-ethz.github.io/first-testflight/feed/ 0 First flying Prototype https://voliro-ethz.github.io/first-flying-prototype/ https://voliro-ethz.github.io/first-flying-prototype/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:37:54 +0000 https://voliro-ethz.github.io/?p=5205 At the beginning of this week all the ordered parts from China arrived. We had been busy the whole week to complete all soldering, screwing together all the different parts and setting up the pixhawk.
Today we finally made it – the first flying prototype is ready for its first testflight

]]> https://voliro-ethz.github.io/first-flying-prototype/feed/ 0 CAD drawings for the final prototype https://voliro-ethz.github.io/cad-drawings-for-the-final-prototype/ https://voliro-ethz.github.io/cad-drawings-for-the-final-prototype/#respond Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:48:48 +0000 https://voliro-ethz.github.io/?p=5216 Till mid of December we want to finished with all the CAD drawings so we can give them to our manufacturers. Keep up Kamil, we are almost there.

]]> https://voliro-ethz.github.io/cad-drawings-for-the-final-prototype/feed/ 0 First rendering of VOLIRO at wall https://voliro-ethz.github.io/this-post-looks-beautiful-even-with-long-interesting-title/ https://voliro-ethz.github.io/this-post-looks-beautiful-even-with-long-interesting-title/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:32:15 +0000 http://impreza.us-themes.net/this-post-looks-beautiful-even-with-long-interesting-title/ A short insight into what the final prototype will really look like.

]]> https://voliro-ethz.github.io/this-post-looks-beautiful-even-with-long-interesting-title/feed/ 0 Tiltable Hexacopter hovering over the ground https://voliro-ethz.github.io/satisfaction-lies-in-the-effort/ https://voliro-ethz.github.io/satisfaction-lies-in-the-effort/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:10:50 +0000 http://impreza.us-themes.net/satisfaction-lies-in-the-effort/ Curious how it will look like?

This is one of our first design scatches for the tiltable Hexacopter hovering over the ground.

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