[AR] Re: Flight Controller Features
- From: Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:06:13 -0800
On Jan 10, 2016 8:56 PM, "Jonathan Goff" <jongoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you're talking about the helicopter landing part, I'm not sure that's
fair. From what I've heard, a properly done autogyrating helicopter
recovery system can be weight competitive with parachutes, and a lot more
controllable. The reason Roton ATV was a handful to fly was that they
intentionally didn't go fly-by-wire for the ATV, and didn't even initially
go with closed loop control for the throttle. In a world where college
students have quadrotors playing ping-pong with each other, my gut says
that the control dynamics challenges of helicopter landing are probably
overblown.
I'm just going on memory, that was long time ago. :)
But I will point out that single rotor systems are radically different from
multi-rotor systems.
D.
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