Autonomous helicopter flips to land on steep slopes

[chemicalBR0]

i can "land" my rc heli on the ceiling

this is a different ball game tho because it has to take into acount the forward speed then do the quarter flip just at the correct moment then put in just enough negative pitch to hold it in place without destroying the skids..

cool stuff

[GreenTolene]

guess I really am a idiot because I didnt see a flip and i watched 2 times.

[tackhammer66]

lol greentolene there isnt supposed to be a flip.

[metalliholic]

I dont get it??

wheres the flip?

I didnt see it.

[Rob4487]

Very Cool.

[msbfd]

If the landing angle isn't determined in advance, then determine it (via radar, etc.) before landing.

Getting this thing to chuck a helicopter sideways onto a MOVING platform (like an aircraft carrier) is another matter entirely.

[LargeFish]

This is beyond cool.

[XxnesiexX]

sub zero

[Nexcet]

Or not!

But nevertheless cool =)

[Frap357]

Amazing!

[esmith512]

That's neat, but the maneuver is pretty simple and reflexively algorithmic. Now try this(!): Tilt the landing pad to any arbitrary pitch and heading, and have the helicopter plan and execute a landing if possible. Then have it idle, then safely take off again! :-D

[onlyinfoexists]

What does reflexively algorithmic even mean? Nothing in what I just saw looks computationally easy!

[brandongalbraith]

Landing on a static platform (even at odd angles ) is fairly easy once you've worked out the algorithm to do so. Parent poster was referring to having the device land on something where the angle of the landing pad wasn't determined in advance.

[nourozi]

lol, parent poster? are you referring to a human being as computer coding? lol geek.

[ArthurHsuTW]

Good work! That backtracking after missed landing made me feel that this thing is alive.