{"id":800,"date":"2010-07-01T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=800"},"modified":"2022-11-21T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:35:07","slug":"the-micro-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2010\/07\/01\/the-micro-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro helicopters can perch on walls just like insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Micro helicopters? The latest novelty in the <strong>MAV<\/strong> (Micro Aerial Vehicles) field is coming from the heart of old Europe, and more precisely from Switzerland, where a student from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne is at work on the development of a swarm of flying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/\"><strong>micro transmitters<\/strong><\/a>, capable of flying towards a specific point of interest, such as a crime scene or the scene of a natural disaster, and to <strong>perch<\/strong> on top of trees or walls, in a position from where they can easily gather information, images and data, and transmit them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This result is achieved thanks to a couple of <strong>prongs<\/strong>, mounted on the front side of the flying robot. These stings are part of a small module, weighing approximately 4 grams, which can be applied on basically all vehicles of this kind currently available on the market.<\/p>\n<h3>What mechanism do<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/227329997_A_Perching_Mechanism_for_Micro_Aerial_Vehicles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> micro helicopters<\/a> work on?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the <strong>micro aerial vehicle<\/strong> reaches its target, these prongs would <strong>stick<\/strong> into the surface, keeping it in place and allowing it to start its work, gather images and intelligence, and transmit it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an experimental phase, this module is being mounted on a small <strong>glider<\/strong>, but in the future it should be possible to use it also on battery-powered flying robots. The stings can easily penetrate any wooden surface, but they are resistant enough to make holes also on a concrete surface, making them very useful for reconnaissance and data collection, for example during a city fire, to reach areas where firemen are unable to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the mission is completed, a small remotely controlled motor would <strong>withdraw<\/strong> the prongs from the wall, allowing the MAV to come back to its launch base, ready to be used again for a new reconnaissance or imaging assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micro helicopters? The latest novelty in the MAV (Micro Aerial Vehicles) field is coming from the heart of old Europe, and more precisely from Switzerland, where a student from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne is at work on the development of a swarm of flying micro transmitters, capable of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}