Gimball insensitive robot collisions

 Unlike many other flying robots , Gimball has only make collision
 flight sions . This machine developed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is
 expected to bounce over obstacles without losing the road, such as insects
 flying , thanks to its ingenious spherical cage of carbon fiber .
Nature inspires many researchers, including the Laboratory roboticists
 Intelligent Systems (LIS for Laboratory of Intelligent Systems) of
 the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . As insects
 flying the Gimball robot is unusual proceed after
 collided with an obstacle. Such a capability would prove useful
 for vehicles operating in a rugged environment, for exam-
 ple within a building destroyed by an earthquake.
 Of course, flying robots for such missions exist,
 but they are mostly sensitive to shocks . To avoid them, they are
 often clad in expensive and fragile sensors that add so much
 potential failures. In addition, they are not always operative in all situations, for example in a
 smoky environment. So in response to this finding Briod Adrien and his colleague Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski
 developed Gimball , a sphere 34 cm in diameter which can move freely and independently
 me in the air. Specifically, the device is divided into two modules that each have an important role.
At the heart of the sphere is a platform equipped propulsion system , steering and stabilization.
 Thus, the robot is moved by an electric motor which actuates a double helix, while the fins
 allow it to move in the desired direction. Gyro stabilization system was specially
 developed by the two researchers, so that the interior of Gimball remains buoyant continuously .
 This stabilization system is connected to two movable rings of carbon fibers , whereby the outermost
 is attached to a spherical lattice constructed of the same material . With this arrangement, the cage is relatively
 elastic , allowing it to absorb shock and bounce , and shoot in all directions around the
 internal module . This is the key element of the system, since it is he allowing Gimball maintain its orientation
 tion after collision ( the sphere has turned, but not his heart). A full-scale test was conducted in a
 forest on the heights of Lausanne . Gimball was awarded a heading to follow before taking off .
 Using a compass, the robotic device then moved successfully and independently in the direction
 designated for several hundred meters , while hitting several trees in the process. Note that sailed
 also a camera, a useful element in relief operations , as well as altitude sensor .
 This robot is lightweight and robust, since it is built of carbon fiber and the number of sensors
 board is reduced, was presented at the international robotics exhibition ( iREX ) in Tokyo in November 2013.