“Multicopters are on the rise and redefine agility and maneuverability in the air. We want to take this further and free it from any restrictions.”
Our goal is to design a Hexacopter that can hover in any orientation in the air by decoupling its position and its orientation completely.
This gives the System the ability to perform acrobatic maneuvers which opens up a world of new possible applications.
OUR CONCEPT
Within 9 months we developed a Hexacopter with 6 individually tiltable axes that allow flight maneuvers which you could not even think of before.
FUTURE FEATURES
rolling on ground
driving at the wall
acrobatic maneuvers
intuitive user control
takeoff and landing
vision based features
MEET THE TEAM
We are an interdisciplinary team of 11 highly motivated students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) and Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK).
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Our team consists of 8 mechanical and 1 electrical engineering students, all in the last year of their bachelor studies at ETH, as well as 2 industrial design students from ZHDK.
At ETH we get the unique chance to apply for a “focus project” in the last year of our bachelors. Instead of just having theoretical lectures we have the opportunity to design a complete system from scratch. It is basically a small research group composed of students in their bachelor studies, which try to realize an idea for a product as a “proof of concept” and attempt to push the boundaries of engineering forward.
We as the “Voliro“ focus project are part of the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) at ETH Zürich and aim to create a system which can fly, drive parallel to the wall and on the ground.
We would like to thank a number of people who helped to realize this project. Our work would not have been possible if it had not been for the great support of doctoral students, professors and other experts who shared their profound knowledge and experience with us.
In particular, we would like to thank Prof. Dr. Roland Siegwart for giving us the opportunity to conduct this project in his lab.
Furthermore, we are grateful to Dr. Igor Gilitschenski, Dr. Zachary Taylor and Fabio Dubois, our coaches, for keeping us always motivated and their marvelous help in in all departments.
Finally, we are thanking Sebastian Verling and Mina Kamel for their tireless and extremely valuable support throughout the whole project.
PARTNERS
armasuisse W+T is our research partner
Faulhaber supports us with high quality DC Motors
Mecaplex laminates our rotor protections made out of carbon fibre
Carbomill makes the negative Forms for our system for laminating
MAIN SPONSORS
Qualicut cuts out carbon fibre parts for us
Conrad supports us financially
SPONSORS
FPV Racing supports us with electronic parts for the system
Swaytronic supports us with electronic parts, especially batteries
Streetfighters Switzerland supports us with screws in all variants and sizes
Alphacam 3D prints high temperature resistant motor mountings for us
KDE Direct gives us a discount on their high quality brushless motors and helps with technical support
OTHER FOKUS PROJECTS
Project ARC (Autonomous Racing Car)
Project ATHLAS (adaptive helicopter landing gear)
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