This is interesting, no longer do you need 5 or 6 motors for redundancy

[AMGPilot]

wonder if DJI will implement this in firmware for emergency recovery

6:55 min in is the good stuff

 

[The Editor]

wonder if DJI will implement this in firmware for emergency recovery

6:55 min in is the good stuff

This has been posted a few times on here.

Those quads are very lightweight and are controlled by tracking markers and cameras on the ceiling.

The algorithms are interesting but anything DJI come up with would need a very large power to weight ratio (especially when swinging a large camera underneath) and the resultant payload being thrown around would cause havoc.

D'andrea's quads are all small, lightweight and symmetrical in design so that when they spin they do not throw a heavy payload off axis.

It would probably be possible to implement on a toy Mavic but much more difficult and costly on an air frame like the Inspire 1 or 2

 

[henrymerrilees]

The center of gravity is much more concentrated in these quads meaning that if implementation were attempted in say an inspire, it would not only be difficult to implement, but also very dangerous. Real gps is far less accurate (especially in china). As a general rule of thumb, it is a bad idea to create airborn flywheels. Additionally, due to the rotational energy in the quadcopter, it would likely sustain equally debilitating damage in any real world situation. If it lost control you would have a flyaway flywheel. Not saying impossible, I am just saying really far off in the future.

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