flying is a dream of humankind since
thousands of years probably since ever
and it’s already in the great Greek
mythology where Icarus and Daedalus went
flying and Icarus fall down from the sky
because he was getting too close to the
Sun it was only 1700 years later when
Leonardo da Vinci was the first
designing a system which might have the
potential to fly however it took an
order for hundred years until the Wright
brothers were able to really fly with a
human airplane today we arrived in the
age of drones we have millions of drones
sold every year
drones allow us to get the perspective
of a bird to feel like a bird even if
you are standing on ground I’m rolling
sig what I’m doing research at ETH on
flying and mobile robots and I’m very
passionate about flying robots so let me
tell you the story how we actually got
involved into robots so we started when
I still was at EPFL with very small
robots at this time it was the property
of smallest Robin on earth which was
propelled by a Swiss watch motors what
we realized with these very small robots
is that as soon as they were tiny little
stone they are actually a huge obstacle
for these robots and if you locate to
nature if creatures are getting smaller
typically there is a much higher chance
that they’re flying and not working
anymore so we equipped our small tiny
robot with two propellers so which
allows them should allow them to fly and
actually it was lifting off the ground
but on the other side it was not really
stable
it was not a to agile but what this
experience really did is that triggered
our fascination and education for flying
robots so we did a deep deep dive in
looking into new
concepts how we can fly and in 2004 we
have generated the first quadrant of
flying robots in worldwide which was
stabili flying in the air this was
actually the spark for all which came
later on in the last last decade all
these development to bits consumer and
professional flying robots but there was
more to think about fix helicopters
quadrotors there are limited in flight
time materials also dangerous if the
value of people so our students designed
this sky flying robot which combines the
lighter of air system of balloons base
propellers like you see it on a quadrat
or which allows them really to fly over
people and take pictures from here or
entertain people the system was then
carried on by our students is now and is
now used for filming from the air and
actually also from for entertainment but
balloon times or airship type flying
robots are somewhat limited by their
sensitivity to wind and they are not
very slow in movement so they cannot
cover large areas so we asked us a
request the question can we actually
build an airplane which can cover
extremely large areas and probably can
ever stay forever in the air and so we
designed a solar airplane which in 2008
was the first time to demonstrate with a
small airplane that you can fly more
than 24 hours in 2015 with the airplanes
you see now on this video we showed that
that we can fly nearly week we flew 81
hours this type of airplanes allow us to
really cover huge spaces and in 2017 we
had a mission with our earth scientists
to measure glaciers in Greenland however
there is still some limitations
helicopters have two advantage the can
vertically takeoff but they’re highly
inefficient fixed-wing airplanes are
extremely efficient but they need
runways so
stools designed something which is a
hybrid between both so it’s a system
which has two propellers and two flaps
it’s a wing only flying system which can
get off the ground vertically and can
switch over them to a horizontal flight
with these type of systems you can
actually cover large areas you can in
contrast to helicopters which fly
somewhat like 10 15 minutes fly about an
hour and cover large areas for aerial
imaging or for agriculture but if you’ve
seen all this aerial vehicles we have
seen are actually getting as far away
from structures so flying is typically
in the open space but imagine if you
would have flying systems which also can
also go in contact with environment
which can fly extremely close to
infrastructures as you can see here what
humans do so these actually triggered
out our last challenge building flying
robots which can not only fly in the
open space but actually can fly in all
directions with all our Berthier
orientation can be equipped with robot
arms and can then interact with the
environment and this system we call it
volley arrow allows to fly in all
directions it has in contrast to stand
that multicopters propellers or rotors
which can be turned around the central
axis and this decouples the translation
with orientation which it allows
actually generating forces in all
directions and opens a totally new field
of applications for drones you can
imagine to use this for spraying and
cleaning fascitis aids you can imagine
to use this to inspect a little pair
wind turbines or as you can see it here
on the image you can use it hopefully in
the future to spray concrete on very
light structures in articular
architecture it’s a great pleasure and
honor to show you our system volley
arrow the first time on stage here at
TEDx with the help of my collaborators
so let me first
so this basic printable so so it looks
in principle like a standard water to a
helicopter but as soon as you turn it
around you can see that the propellers
can actually rotate around their axis
this allows their helicopter to really
move in all directions and if equipped
with an arm also generate force in all
directions so will now see a first
flight which demonstrates that this is
really different than standard
helicopter because you can fly up you
can stay horizontal and then you can
actually also move in all different
directions
you can see if if it’s flying horizontal
it has not a tilt to move forward and
backward it just rotates their
individual propellers
and as you can see it can fly in all
directions so he can actually get in
touch with balls face the robot arm –
it’s a ball and actually interfere at
different situations this helicopter has
also very high payload you can see it
has on each unit to prepare lists so
that you can really impress the the
payload and the spread and also then
really have strong interaction Force
Base environment for future applications
thanks very much for this demonstration and thanks very much
thousands of years probably since ever
and it’s already in the great Greek
mythology where Icarus and Daedalus went
flying and Icarus fall down from the sky
because he was getting too close to the
Sun it was only 1700 years later when
Leonardo da Vinci was the first
designing a system which might have the
potential to fly however it took an
order for hundred years until the Wright
brothers were able to really fly with a
human airplane today we arrived in the
age of drones we have millions of drones
sold every year
drones allow us to get the perspective
of a bird to feel like a bird even if
you are standing on ground I’m rolling
sig what I’m doing research at ETH on
flying and mobile robots and I’m very
passionate about flying robots so let me
tell you the story how we actually got
involved into robots so we started when
I still was at EPFL with very small
robots at this time it was the property
of smallest Robin on earth which was
propelled by a Swiss watch motors what
we realized with these very small robots
is that as soon as they were tiny little
stone they are actually a huge obstacle
for these robots and if you locate to
nature if creatures are getting smaller
typically there is a much higher chance
that they’re flying and not working
anymore so we equipped our small tiny
robot with two propellers so which
allows them should allow them to fly and
actually it was lifting off the ground
but on the other side it was not really
stable
it was not a to agile but what this
experience really did is that triggered
our fascination and education for flying
robots so we did a deep deep dive in
looking into new
concepts how we can fly and in 2004 we
have generated the first quadrant of
flying robots in worldwide which was
stabili flying in the air this was
actually the spark for all which came
later on in the last last decade all
these development to bits consumer and
professional flying robots but there was
more to think about fix helicopters
quadrotors there are limited in flight
time materials also dangerous if the
value of people so our students designed
this sky flying robot which combines the
lighter of air system of balloons base
propellers like you see it on a quadrat
or which allows them really to fly over
people and take pictures from here or
entertain people the system was then
carried on by our students is now and is
now used for filming from the air and
actually also from for entertainment but
balloon times or airship type flying
robots are somewhat limited by their
sensitivity to wind and they are not
very slow in movement so they cannot
cover large areas so we asked us a
request the question can we actually
build an airplane which can cover
extremely large areas and probably can
ever stay forever in the air and so we
designed a solar airplane which in 2008
was the first time to demonstrate with a
small airplane that you can fly more
than 24 hours in 2015 with the airplanes
you see now on this video we showed that
that we can fly nearly week we flew 81
hours this type of airplanes allow us to
really cover huge spaces and in 2017 we
had a mission with our earth scientists
to measure glaciers in Greenland however
there is still some limitations
helicopters have two advantage the can
vertically takeoff but they’re highly
inefficient fixed-wing airplanes are
extremely efficient but they need
runways so
stools designed something which is a
hybrid between both so it’s a system
which has two propellers and two flaps
it’s a wing only flying system which can
get off the ground vertically and can
switch over them to a horizontal flight
with these type of systems you can
actually cover large areas you can in
contrast to helicopters which fly
somewhat like 10 15 minutes fly about an
hour and cover large areas for aerial
imaging or for agriculture but if you’ve
seen all this aerial vehicles we have
seen are actually getting as far away
from structures so flying is typically
in the open space but imagine if you
would have flying systems which also can
also go in contact with environment
which can fly extremely close to
infrastructures as you can see here what
humans do so these actually triggered
out our last challenge building flying
robots which can not only fly in the
open space but actually can fly in all
directions with all our Berthier
orientation can be equipped with robot
arms and can then interact with the
environment and this system we call it
volley arrow allows to fly in all
directions it has in contrast to stand
that multicopters propellers or rotors
which can be turned around the central
axis and this decouples the translation
with orientation which it allows
actually generating forces in all
directions and opens a totally new field
of applications for drones you can
imagine to use this for spraying and
cleaning fascitis aids you can imagine
to use this to inspect a little pair
wind turbines or as you can see it here
on the image you can use it hopefully in
the future to spray concrete on very
light structures in articular
architecture it’s a great pleasure and
honor to show you our system volley
arrow the first time on stage here at
TEDx with the help of my collaborators
so let me first
so this basic printable so so it looks
in principle like a standard water to a
helicopter but as soon as you turn it
around you can see that the propellers
can actually rotate around their axis
this allows their helicopter to really
move in all directions and if equipped
with an arm also generate force in all
directions so will now see a first
flight which demonstrates that this is
really different than standard
helicopter because you can fly up you
can stay horizontal and then you can
actually also move in all different
directions
you can see if if it’s flying horizontal
it has not a tilt to move forward and
backward it just rotates their
individual propellers
and as you can see it can fly in all
directions so he can actually get in
touch with balls face the robot arm –
it’s a ball and actually interfere at
different situations this helicopter has
also very high payload you can see it
has on each unit to prepare lists so
that you can really impress the the
payload and the spread and also then
really have strong interaction Force
Base environment for future applications
thanks very much for this demonstration and thanks very much
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