Drone Group Learning Series: The Flapper Drone and Estimating Distance in Flaps

Please RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/dc-area-drone-user-group/events/301445354

Levi will be presenting on Flapper Drones (including a demonstration). Afterwards, Mike will have his drone racing controller and we'll set up the simulator on the big TV for anyone interested to try out.

We'll get started right after 6pm so please try to arrive on time!

What is a Flapper Drone? Let’s say at your desk, looking at the objects around you on the table. You have the feeling that you know where they are, but you don’t know their distance from your eye in meters or feet. Instead, you know where the objects are because you can immediately move your arm and touch anything in front of you. This basic principle is how we, and all animals, encode distances as the actions we must take to reach something. My dissertation studies this intuition and proposes a set of equations that allow testing the theory on…