[Ferdinand] sent in a idea about the extremely cool DelFly Explorer, developed by researchers at Netherlands’ Delft university of Technology, which is declared to be the world’s very first autonomous, flapping micro air vehicle. While it doesn’t fly like a normal ornithopter, the specs will persuade you not to care. It has an 28 cm wingspan as well as evaluates 20 grams, which includes motors, a battery, two cameras, as well as an autopilot. The autopilot utilizes accelerometers as well as a gyroscope, plus a barometer for altitude measurement. You can see the on-board video at the 35-second mark on the video (after the break). They are exceptionally noisy images, however obviously the researchers have come up with some algorithms that can make sense of it.
Put everything together, as well as you have a maker that can take off, preserve altitude, prevent obstacles, as well as fly for nine minutes. We’ve seen a awesome ornithopter style before, as well as even a thrust vectoring plane, however this surpasses both projects. It’s quite extraordinary what they have been able to in shape into such a little design.