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A project log for Project Bird Fish - Free Flight Robotics

Considerate conservation and climate science is on the horizon. These robots are developed to work in multi-species flocks for GOOD!

freeflightlabfreeflightlab 01/08/2021 at 00:470 Comments

This is slightly out of order, but will allow the reader to understand some of the context for the current work.

For the automated paraglider. The single most challenging part was finishing before our launch date... then after that, i'd say the falling with no air.... This was expected, but to what extent was not known at the time. The goal was to prepare the deployment bag in a way that there was a high probability of success. The design of the robot had a wide riser separation, approaching the limit of what was a good idea.. This allowed for the robot to naturally untwist, if twists occured.... They DID.. here is a moment of silence before some brief chaos. 

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