Cycloidal Rotor Drone: The Cyclocopter
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Cycloidal Rotor Airplane: • Cycloidal Rotor Airplane: The Cycloplane
With rotors that rotate around the horizontal axis rather than the vertical axis, this thing doesn’t look like it should be able to fly. Not to be confused with similarly looking magnus effect vehicles, the cyclorotor generates thrust by pitching the blades once per revolution so that they always have a positive angle of attack with respect to the incoming airflow. The position that this pitching angle occurs can be adjusted with a servo and a clever control rod mechanism so that the thrust direction can be instantly vectored in any direction. With some adjustments in the flight controller, the cyclocopter can translate forward and backward in what I like to call “Slidey Mode,” rather than needing to pitch the whole body to move.
00:00 Intro
00:49 What is a Cyclocopter?
01:25 How does the cyclorotor produce thrust?
02:29 How does it fly?
04:22 Advantage over a propeller
05:08 CYCLOCOPTER FRONTFLIP
06:08 Conclusions
#Cyclocopter #Drone #Propeller
コメント (20)
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It looks like it flys (or flew) really well! I've never researched how these things work, but your explanation is really easy to understand!
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Looks like a flying combine harvester! Great video. Thanks for sharing 👍
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This is the kind of stuff I feel YouTube was invented to highlight. Great job and fun video to watch!
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Reminds me of the Voith Schneider propulsion system that some ships have. It does work, and it has a few advantages over traditional propellers, but there's a reason why only very few ships were equipped with it. Maintenence cost mainly, an awful lot of moving parts.
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I love how this cyclocopter seems to be flapping its wings to stay airbourne. What a crazy little machine! Loved this vid, Nicholas. The editing and graphics were great!
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This is the first actually flying Cyclogiro I've seen. I'm impressed! The closest one to free flight was a university project from about a decade ago.
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Really cool design. Especially how forward and backward motion is achieved just by adjusting the pitch of individual blade per cycle. Really impressive.
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This is how I always imagined the ornithopters from Dune. Fantastic model!
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Pretty cool that this concept has been used in boat propulsion for a long time. Voith Schneider is the company. It's used in tugs and some other specialty craft. It can drive any direction basically instantly. Good work!
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When flipping, could you theoretically keep adjusting the airfoils so they always create lift upwards, (making it possible to not only maintain altitude but also have it front flip very slowly)
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Nice. I think the reason why this isn't widely used is because of the complexity and more moving parts making reliability harder to achieve
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pretty amazing. glad you are honest enough to show blips....
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Nice. One tiny question though: How about the efficiency compared?. It must be better to compensate for the added complexity i.e. construction cost.
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Really a beautiful Machine, looks tiny but a lot of engineering is packed into it (kind of makes it look complex), love it👌🏻!
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Excellent job explaining how it works and the blade geometry vs. helicopter. I'm impressed!
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It's nice to give new exposure and way of thinking of how technology works in different ways
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Enjoyed the heck out of it. As far as practicality is concerned though, it doesn't have much payload area for commercial use in large scale....not that you intended it to be. Very interesting. Thanks!
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Sweet! I'm sure someone out West would pay for this - they already use drones to check fences and stock and once it moves and has a camera, if it's three times more efficient, clear winner! I envisaged a "planarcopter" which would work with a linear foil like a glider but the idea never got past a sketch. Well done!
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Well done Nicholas.Very inspirational.
