Funny quadrocopter experiments at the Swiss Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

“Echo” is one of the quadrocopters at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. Researchers put a piano in their Flying Machine Arena so Echo could play “Jingle Bells.”

High-performance flight, fast-changing flight maneuvers are some of the topics researched by the IDSC, using the quadrocopters.
Watch some videos showing this funny research.

Happy quadrocopter plays “Jingle Bells”

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToACDIXTzo0

Flying Inverted Pendulum

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6GpehgzY4w

Dancing quadrocopters

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMTKsiaLwg

Ball jugging

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8O5RBcwmjY

Interactive flip demo

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx3rsadZA6M

How does it work. The flying machine arena

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDj5jtDUD8k

Via: PopSci