Next semester I am planning on building a helicopter type thing with 2 ducted fans VTOL. Basically they will look the same way the Scropion or the Samson gunships looked in Avatar. As a processing unit, I am thinking of getting on of those small computers that has a processor and some ram and runs linux. I forgot what the name of those things are, but I remember that I saw some when I went to UTIAS (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies) for a school trip. Does anyone know what I am talking about to tell me where could I find one of those? Ideally, I will also make them able to fly in a squadron, where one is the leader and the rest mirror the leader's moves,w hen the right time comes. I could then add extra weight to one of them or control the maximum degree of fan turn, and make it auto compensate, so that in the end it will follow the leader's path.
When I say that they will mirror the leader, I am not saying that the actions, as in commands, that the leader does will be copied by the rest. I am talking about the end result to be the same. The extra parameters might be a bit hard to implement, so I guess that won't be done till the end of the year. This will probably be my first complex project, where I will build everything.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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