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CMU team develops a robot and drone system for mine rescues
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Janusz Sendyk
March 29, 2019 at 5:43 pm
Why drone has flipped arms? What is the purpose of it? I’m curious coz we’ve made similar robots in our company.
Brian Throm
March 29, 2019 at 10:40 pm
Janusz Sendyk
I’d guess they are canted to allow the drone to rotate or spin while hovering and still maintaining the simplicity of a fixed rotor design
Janusz Sendyk
March 29, 2019 at 11:13 pm
+Brian Throm I asked about it because I think it’s unnecessary and I wanted to know why it was done that specific way 😉 A simpler design also meets these requirements regardless of the assumed angles and mathematical equations.
Solidify
March 30, 2019 at 8:13 am
Make this one for minecraft
Sumit Saini
April 10, 2019 at 12:46 pm
GREAT WORK ?