Swiss robot to move through the forest does not need precision of Swiss watches. Flying ball is not afraid of trees and can bounce off them like a ball.
sometimes be awkward profitable. Modern flying robots in limited flight conditions have one major drawback – when faced with obstacles they break down.
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Flying Robot is not afraid of obstacles
GimBall, flying robot, created by Swiss scientists, equipped with a compass and height sensor, which allows him to move on … ?
Instead of avoiding obstacles, the new flying robot, designed by Adrian Briodom from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (Switzerland), uses a collision with trees to autonomously fly through the forest a few hundred meters.
According to the developers, to build the robot inspired them observe the flight of insects.
«Usually, the robots should avoid the collision, so we thought that it would be interested in helping him to withstand such a collision,” – he said.
The spherical robot called GimBall equipped with a compass and height sensor, which allows it to move in advance mortgaged rate. To lift it uses two propellers driven by electric motors and regulators adjust the direction of flight.
Savecourse also helps the robot to a new gyro system, consisting of two carbon fiber rings forming a gimbal.
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When the robot hits the obstacle, rotating freely on the inside of the protective frame in the shape of a soccer ball absorbs the impact energy.
invention Swiss engineers has built-in sensors GPS, so his movements seem chaotic. According to the developers, the robot can withstand a collision with a tree at a speed of up to five kilometers per hour, with a stronger impact it will break.
Sharp objects, such as branches, which can penetrate into the gaps between the frame as well as a danger to the robot.
According to the developers, they are going to solve this problem, providing an aircraft recognition system constraints. “Such a system would help him find a way into the building or inside of complex objects,” – says Briod.
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One advantage of the robot is its unusual weight – of 370 grams. According to the inventors’ GimBall feels great in smoky rooms where other flying robots can not be guided by their position sensors. The robot has an onboard video camera, it can fly up to 30 grams of the goods – they can be a gauge of hazardous gases or radioactive contamination, which can be used in emergency zones.
While the robot is controlled remotely, but the creators of the plans to provide it with a system of artificial intelligence that allows the unit to perform complex tasks and move in difficult conditions.
«This is what was our goal – to give an opportunity to act where other robots can not, for example, an earthquake destroyed jobs,” – said the engineer.
GimBall was the last ruler of the whole fi flying robot with a protective frame, developed in the laboratory of Professor Dario Floreano. His first trial took place in the woods near Lausanne, they showed that the robot without prejudice bounces off the trees, keeping the general direction of movement. In early November, the ball will bring to the conference on robotics in Tokyo.
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