Love all the real world testing! Too many college engineering projects never see any real life hardware. Seems like you guys made the best of it and learned a ton as well.
You can go a lifetime and never find a team to work with like this. Awesome on all fronts, and the technology innovation is a damn good concept to go after. Well done!
This is the content that keeps me on YT. Your flight experiments help me with my flight experiments. I do have goals of being a content creator(that’s a whole other story) but my primary goal in life is flying model aircraft. I’ve been able to shortcut a considerable portion of my projects because of content creators like you(Peter stripol, voidstar labs, Alex labs, etc) and you keep me from Doom scrolling and being sad. So thanks twice over. Once for the good RC flight content, and again for my mental health. Btw the channel I’m working on(not this one) is for mental health.
I've wanted to do something like this forever! That was really cool!!! I loved how you autonomously switched the radio link back and forth between plane and quadcopter
I was just thinking about doing this concept yesterday with the skyhunter no less. Just got mine, still gotta build it. I like what you got. It's amazing
I'd imagine this setup would give the benefits of both aircrafts. Long range flight of Ranger and the nimbleness of Scout. In any case very impressive!
This wiĺl be the future for long range Evtol passenger transportation. Next step is to have the quad attaching below the fixed wing in forward fligh conditions. Congrats
So cool! Ive had this idea but on larger scale. They did this on Rotor Riot like 2 years ago. Cool idea but extremely difficult to get that small drone not to get sucked into vortex of those larger props on the plane. you might want to try edf. or somekind of prop guards
would an aperture mechanism be an idea for the copter latching mechanism? as the mechanism is self centering and can be probably be printed in one piece
Great project! Have you accounted for the payload? how big it needs to be in order to both drone and wing carry a LiDAR camera of 1kg each for data collection?
Amazing project!! I've seen your paper, and you implemented Drokit, I'm currently working on a similar project implementing Dronekit for Quadcopter. Can I ask about how you guys implemented Dronekit?
Hello, I'm doing a similar project, but I couldn't get such a good video streaming rate with a raspberry. How did you do it? Can you give us some information?
I was just thinking the other day of a fixed wing ferry that could loiter over a search area for a long period before deploying a small & fully charged quadcopter for close-in inspection, but I imagined the scout would have to make its own way home, the idea of having them re-dock felt too crazy to even consider! Your plan is to have the mother craft land to be a base for the scout, you're not thinking about docking in flight, are you?
Initially we thought about docking in-flight, but that would have been very risky and difficult to pull off. I'm sure it could be done with a lot more time and effort though!
I understand why you started with a fixed wing, but... you built it into a big quad. And then you flew it only in hover mode. I think the most novel part of all of this is the docking mechanism. What I'm left wondering is: why did you make certain design decisions that you did*, and what would you do differently in a complete redesign? *Specifically, starting with a fixed wing aircraft and making it hover, opting for autonomous tracking and descent instead of human pilot, implementation of rigid capture instead of softer capture with ropes/bands or even magnets (wasn't it called the MagDock?), refining ambitions to mean landing on a stationary target (which itself is a refining of ambition to landing on a hovering target instead of a moving airplane), and was there a plan to address charging the mini drone from the mothership? Cool project, but I think I see where you pivoted around issues, and I would have liked to see your original vision accomplished. (But I know exactly how difficult these problems are, so I get it.)
Because you can. A huge part of aviation innovation is stretching the definition of what is possible. 120 years after the Wright Brothers took off, flight is now cheap enough that anyone can do it, and the cost is the lowest it’s ever been. We live in the age where humanity is going to make Icarus look like a chump. Truly an exciting time to be alive if you love flight.
What a weird music video. Seriously, just because everyone litters their videos with annoying background tracks doesn't mean it's a good idea. Narrate the video with in-depth technical information. Heck use synthesized speech if you're not comfortable with the narration task right now. Just please no more of this soulless "you must feel good" audio rubbish.
Amazing project.. i'm an fpv drone pilot of 6 years and this is some of the coolest things ive seen.
Love all the real world testing! Too many college engineering projects never see any real life hardware. Seems like you guys made the best of it and learned a ton as well.
You can go a lifetime and never find a team to work with like this. Awesome on all fronts, and the technology innovation is a damn good concept to go after. Well done!
This is the content that keeps me on YT. Your flight experiments help me with my flight experiments. I do have goals of being a content creator(that’s a whole other story) but my primary goal in life is flying model aircraft. I’ve been able to shortcut a considerable portion of my projects because of content creators like you(Peter stripol, voidstar labs, Alex labs, etc) and you keep me from
Doom scrolling and being sad. So thanks twice over. Once for the good RC flight content, and again for my mental health. Btw the channel I’m working on(not this one) is for mental health.
I've wanted to do something like this forever! That was really cool!!! I loved how you autonomously switched the radio link back and forth between plane and quadcopter
Also the disconnecting of the flight controller when the quadcopter battery is being charged from the plane and reconnecting was really impressive!
@@moncoeur6296 Thank you! I also think that was one of the coolest parts of this project but its hard to show off, so most people miss it.
I was just thinking about doing this concept yesterday with the skyhunter no less. Just got mine, still gotta build it. I like what you got. It's amazing
This is impressive work, and you all also have a great sense of humor about yourselves and the process!
Great work! Nicely done!
this is so cool! what a neat idea and awesome job with the execution despite running into obstacles
I'd imagine this setup would give the benefits of both aircrafts. Long range flight of Ranger and the nimbleness of Scout. In any case very impressive!
You great! Don´t stop, develop it.
Awesome job guys 🙌 Def deserves a like and a sub 🤙
Dayum this is cool! great work.
This wiĺl be the future for long range Evtol passenger transportation. Next step is to have the quad attaching below the fixed wing in forward fligh conditions. Congrats
Tha't so good you guy did a mazing project.
nice work!
wow ohhhh that's sooo cool and i love this project! hope to seeing this more....
I have a similar project and I have learnt from yours thank you so much
Super cool project
Superawesome project, well done!
Well done!
Cool project guys!!
Gentlemen and lady, tremendous work!
Nice work
Thank you! It was a lot of fun to work on.
Very cool!
Impressive project.
So cool! Ive had this idea but on larger scale. They did this on Rotor Riot like 2 years ago. Cool idea but extremely difficult to get that small drone not to get sucked into vortex of those larger props on the plane. you might want to try edf. or somekind of prop guards
I saw this on Reddit, great work! Whats the next project?
I'm not sure yet. Currently the focus is on finding a good job!
“Blanket boys” 😂😅
would an aperture mechanism be an idea for the copter latching mechanism? as the mechanism is self centering and can be probably be printed in one piece
Did y’all get around to launching the quad from the plane mid flight? That would be really cool. Good job 👍
We never did because we were too scared of the drones colliding mid air and thus destroying our whole project. It would have been cool though!
Great project! Have you accounted for the payload? how big it needs to be in order to both drone and wing carry a LiDAR camera of 1kg each for data collection?
such a fun project, what flight mode does fpv use when performing an autonomous landing? is it in stabilize(angle) mode or position mode?
It uses precision land mode, which is one of the mode options in ArduPilot
Could the quadcopter assist the quadplane during VTOL?
We make one like this, but we can carry two drones and we have signal repeater on the VTOL.
That's smart! Do you have a video of it anywhere?
@@jacobvandenbosch5814 we didnt upload to youtube yet .
how did you start mission code on raspberry pi
Amazing project!! I've seen your paper, and you implemented Drokit, I'm currently working on a similar project implementing Dronekit for Quadcopter. Can I ask about how you guys implemented Dronekit?
Hello, I'm doing a similar project, but I couldn't get such a good video streaming rate with a raspberry. How did you do it? Can you give us some information?
In that first pic, the girl gave me Debra Morgan Vibes 😂👍
Very nice project. Your pusher propeller is the wrong way around though (7:20).
now I have to apply to Calvin college :)
Arudpilot has come along way 😛
Hey, did you use mavlink to controll direction of the drone while landing or is it some rc input simulation?
by mavlink I mean sending directional vector with mavlink commands, I have seen it might be possible.
I was just thinking the other day of a fixed wing ferry that could loiter over a search area for a long period before deploying a small & fully charged quadcopter for close-in inspection, but I imagined the scout would have to make its own way home, the idea of having them re-dock felt too crazy to even consider! Your plan is to have the mother craft land to be a base for the scout, you're not thinking about docking in flight, are you?
Initially we thought about docking in-flight, but that would have been very risky and difficult to pull off. I'm sure it could be done with a lot more time and effort though!
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si pero en ell aire... no way !
But why? Package delivery? Medicine delivery?
To deploy them fast
I understand why you started with a fixed wing, but... you built it into a big quad. And then you flew it only in hover mode. I think the most novel part of all of this is the docking mechanism.
What I'm left wondering is: why did you make certain design decisions that you did*, and what would you do differently in a complete redesign?
*Specifically, starting with a fixed wing aircraft and making it hover, opting for autonomous tracking and descent instead of human pilot, implementation of rigid capture instead of softer capture with ropes/bands or even magnets (wasn't it called the MagDock?), refining ambitions to mean landing on a stationary target (which itself is a refining of ambition to landing on a hovering target instead of a moving airplane), and was there a plan to address charging the mini drone from the mothership?
Cool project, but I think I see where you pivoted around issues, and I would have liked to see your original vision accomplished. (But I know exactly how difficult these problems are, so I get it.)
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But, like... why?
I was trying to figure that out as well. It's a cool concept but I can't think of a single instance in the real world in which this is useful
Look up Soviet Flying Aircraft carriers from WWII.
That’s why.
Flying Aircraft carrier!. Duh
Ukraine, Greedfox, Ukraine…
Because you can. A huge part of aviation innovation is stretching the definition of what is possible. 120 years after the Wright Brothers took off, flight is now cheap enough that anyone can do it, and the cost is the lowest it’s ever been. We live in the age where humanity is going to make Icarus look like a chump. Truly an exciting time to be alive if you love flight.
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I bet the crap music is the problem. Turn that crap off and these would fly better.
Its like nails on a chalkboard ffs
Dislike. Boo. Next time use math to engineer your aircraft and not guess work.
What a weird music video.
Seriously, just because everyone litters their videos with annoying background tracks doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Narrate the video with in-depth technical information. Heck use synthesized speech if you're not comfortable with the narration task right now. Just please no more of this soulless "you must feel good" audio rubbish.
You’re a loser lol
Imagine writing a paragraph to say nothing