New!! Tilt Drone

[Bartman]

http://www.tiltdrone.com/

From their website:

FAST AND FURIOUS
TILT, a new generation of mini quadcopter racers: they are FAST, they are FURIOUS. Equipped with a dynamic tilting arms system governed by the flight controller: greater acceleration and speed, improved aerodynamics and best camera view in the market at fast forward speed.

ABOUT INKONOVA

We are a product development company based in Stockholm, Sweden, which develops innovative multirotor products pushing the limits of today’s technology and materials.

NAME
TILT
SPEED >110 km/h
0-100 KM/H 3.7 s
FLIGHT TIME 8+ min
WEIGHT 800 gr
POWER 1100 W

 

[GotHeliRC]

Darn it... I was building a mini with this idea for a while, but then give up because no time. Oh well, guessed wouldn't know anyone with such fast car to make a demo video anyway.

I was planning to use linkage rod and servo... but it seem they used belt driven.... interesting.

 

[Old Man]

Perhaps another idea is to build camera rigs with tilt technology. Use a PWM drive system to control directional tilt. This might provide considerable efficiency improvements. I was looking at this for awhile but all the engineers I know have conflict of interest limitations.

 

[Bartman]

here's how i've been planning to do it (for at least the last two years), use the camera tilt function in most flight controllers to keep the body level while allowing the flight control and arms to tilt on an axis through the middle of the heli body. "Active Body" is what I was going to call it. the motors would be at the ends of two Y's sticking out the sides and passing through that active axis that goes through the middle.

might as well get that out there now that it's becoming more common! being too busy to build new stuff sucks! lol

 

[Old Man]

Yup

 

[ProfEngr]

I watched a youtube video of some EU racers that claim tilting all 4 rotors caused spin-outs in tight-radius turns. I'm assuming they've taken that into account. And also it was mentioned in the vid that making the front arms a little shorter than the back improved maneuverability as well.

 

[cootertwo]

A bit expensive at the moment. And Bart, your idea of only one tube sounds simpler, and interesting.

 

[ProfEngr]

yeah, that would allow for more agility than their design; use 2 servo motors and it could spin on a dime.