Quadcopter Flying Tutorial: Turning Tips and Techniques

This is a tutorial video detailing flying tips on how to turn a quadcopter. Banked turns, sideslip rudder turns, and turn tightening with pitch control are discussed. For this video, I used the very nimble WLToys V212 6 axis quadcopter. Great for beginners and advanced flyers alike. http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-WLtoys-V949-Upgrade-V212-2_4G-6-Axis-RC-Quadcopter-RTF-Mode-2-p-68517.html?p=RB0922217402201307U3
The V212 is one of the best quadcopters for beginners to learn outdoor flying.

Six axis stabilization allows automatic sensing of uncommanded sideslip and dropping.

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Valkyrie Turning an Industrial Valve

Valkyrie, aided by a new whole-body compliant control and planning architecture, turns an industrial valve while being assisted by a skilled operator. One of the main innovations of the operations and control architecture is to provide rapid programming tools that allow skilled users to create sensor-based behaviors at runtime without the need to teleoperate the robot. Valkyrie is a collaborative effort lead by NASA's Johnson Space Center where UT Austin plays a key role on providing a sensor-based Whole-Body Compliant Control Architecture for manipulation and mobility.

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Rehearsal of NASA's Valkyrie Robot Turning a Valve

NASA, the Human Centered Robotics Lab at UT Austin and Texas A&M made it to the DRC Trials. Here Valkyrie manipulates a valve while standing up. Valkyrie is a new bipedal robot that was designed and built from scratch in just 9 months. Although this year we did not have a lot of time to get the hardware and software finalized to fully compete, we are here in the competition for the endgame in 2014.

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