A drone built by students that can move through water as well as air.
It uses a variable pitch prop to do this.
It uses low frequency radio signals to control it underwater.
Very cool!
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That is super cool. I’m wondering about the water to air transitions.
It might not be, but assuming it’s ArduPilot for argument.
The manual RC control would be straightforward for underwater and air from motor control/vectoring perspective. Since the pilot is giving the input.
But I’m wondering for the autonomous functions, standard PIDs I would guess would go whacko once it got in water in a different medium. Wonder if it would need to sense air vs water medium and upload appropriate PID parameters for each medium
I guess if that worked you could go pure ArduCopter as an ArduSub. Super cool project
Amazing! Can you imagine a model big enough for a person to fit in? That’d be a fun day at the beach for sure!
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