[AR] Re: hovering rocket vertical position control
- From: Nate Vack <njvack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:26:46 -0600
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, <rsteinke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What have other people done? Are there other ideas?
If you're looking to actually build a thing and test your stuff, you
might do well with model rotorcraft; IIRC, Paul Breed tested a lot
with helicopters. Quadrotors could reasonably approximate multi-engine
rockets, and you could probably build a single ducted-fan design that
would hover, too.
Moving to actual rocket hardware will still involve some surprises, of
course. But crashing a $500 model is... cheaper than crashing a
rocket.
-n
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