Building Bridges With Flying Machines | Two Minute Papers #11

Building architectural elements and buildings with flying machines is a hot research topic. It is a remarkably difficult task, as many of these flying machines not only have to be controlled safely, but they also have to collaborate efficiently to succeed in building complex structures. Even something as mundane as deploying the rope has its own science. In this work from the ETH Zürich, these flying machines build quite reliable rope bridges that humans can use for traversal.

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The original video can be found here:
http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/research-dandrea/research-projects/aerial-construction.html

The paper “Building Tensile Structures with Flying Machines” is available here:
http://flyingmachinearena.org/wp-content/publications/2013/augIROS13.pdf
Disclaimer: I was not part of this research project, I am merely providing commentary on this work.

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