Building Tensile Structures with Flying Machines

Building tensile structures with flying machines in the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena.

The video shows quadrocopters assembling prototypical tensile structures. This is part of a body of research in aerial construction, a field that addresses the construction of structures with the aid of flying machines.

The video demonstrates that flying machines are capable of autonomously spanning a rope between two support points. They can also create surface structures by using already placed ropes as new support points. Furthermore, multiple machines can work together thus extending the type of realizable structures.

* Researchers
Federico Augugliaro, Ammar Mirjan, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, and Raffaello D'Andrea

Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

* Music
Used with kind permission of the composer.

* Location

* Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Hartmann Müller-Fonds on ETH Research Grant ETH-30 12-1 and by the SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation).

[youngbird]

grande classe...félicitations...Blue Sky !!!

[kronjaa]

isn't it the setup that uses set of cameras to capture position of copters in the room?

[ewaf]

All very clever but could they rescue a cat stuck up a tree.

[poppyannlynagh-smith]

what flight controler are these using?

[deltaer]

sir, i was intrested in knowing about the processor and dev board used as i am lookin forward to build a quad with artificial neural networks implemented to achieve a stable flight even if there is a prop failure.. so as im not so well informed about the processors and dev boards in the market i wish to know abt the processors u used..