Also called the World Cup of Drones, the Drones For Good Award held in United Arab Emirates (UAE) offered $1 million as the prize money. The international competition seeks to emphasize the positive capabilities of drones and on Saturday, a team of Swiss technologists took out the first prize with a vehicle that flies protected by a spinning cage, helping it to better travel through confined spaces.
The Flyability team from Switzerland beat out some truly big-picture ideas to claim the first prize. These include drones that detect landmines, drones that shoot seedpods into the ground to help replantation efforts and drone delivery nets that could form the mailboxes of the future.
The team claims that the main aim of developing the Gimball was to mimic the ability of insects to crash into obstacles and continue in flight. The drone is housed inside a carbon fiber cage, which sits inside another rotating, spherical frame. As the drone crashes into walls, beams and ceilings, the outer frame takes the impact and inner remains stable, allowing it to continue on its way.
The big advantage is that there is no need for obstacle avoidance sensors and software. Gimball can instead have collisions and use the obstacles to guide it in its path. The team posits that the drone will first find the value in search and rescue missions, where drones are sent into disaster zones , such as a nuclear site or ware-torn area.
Working out how drones can be prevented from crashing into things, or at least in a way that doesn't put a stop to their flight, is a legitimate problem for this burgeoning technology could see the Gimball approach pop up in all kinds of applications.
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