Helium Blimp robot flying up and down.

This video shows a simple Helium robot flying up, stopping and then flying down again. Starting and ending height is 160 cm above the floor, and max height is 340 cm. Closed loop pd controller. The robot gets it's position from an ultrasonic tracking system. Position update frequency is 4 Hz. Please go to www.brl.ac.uk for more info, or send me a message :-)
There is a paper available on the position system here: http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/~a-winfie/Bjerknes_etal_TAROS07.pdf

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• flying
• Robot
• Helium
• ultrasound
• position
• system
• closed
• loop
• control
• Bristol
• robotics
• Laboratory.