A Robot That fly like an insect without sensors

Now first let me tell you what are the advantages of flying like an insect, the insects fly without taking the headache of collisions, if the collisions occur during their flight then they recover soon from it, this makes them flying in a really special way because of it they can enjoy a careless flying, and sometimes just because of that they caught by lizards and sometimes by frogs too.

Gimball - A Robot that flies like an insect

                                                  Here is your thinking point many robots today have many built in sensors in them to control their walk right? But what if there is smoke or noise in the environment? Yes, they will be confused. The solution is now here Gimball, a robot with two frames, one inner frame and one outer frame, this outer frame’s responsibility will be to give the bouncer behavior of the robot just like an insect, means when it will collide, it will bounce back and will be ready for another try.  It has been made with the carbon-fiber material, this was really necessary to make light weighted the outer cubical frame has the diameter of 34 centimeters, the inner frame remains stable while the outer frame protects it from collisions, these light weight robots can be used for taking video footage of any location where human presence can be dangerous for the human itself.  Moreover the outer frame is made of Elastic material which enables it to bounce itself and recover from a shock and it’s freestyle flying will be helpful in many types of sting operations also, when it flies it sounds like a mosquito.

                                                       It is being presented from 5^th  to 9^th of November 2013 at the conference of  IREX in Tokyo(Japan).

                                  Design of Gimball

It has several parts in its design, those parts are following -

• A Gyroscopic design with one inner and one outer(elastic cage) frame enables it to bounce from any shock or collisions.
• It has twin propellers.
• It a fin to navigate it properly.
• Control and main parts are in the center.

                                                                         Gimball has been invented by Adrien Briod, who is a EPFL Phd student, moreover in situations when other robots will not work, in all of those horrible situations the Gimball will continue work because it’s elastic frame will enable it to take footages no matter how much shocks it gets in those horrible situation, yes we need such types of robots in near future to take footage of those areas where army personnels can’t reach, and in some wary conditions where normal news reporters can’t reach and in some earth quakes it will be able to take footage which will enable the scientists and engineers to study the design specific faults of the building and they will be able to modify and make more better it for future.