Your subtle sadism aside, I think this is a good idea. We will study it closely as a physical analogue for human existence in a indifferent, entropic universe, that we nevertheless depend on for survival.
This is how satellites maintain their attitude without having to constantly use reaction control jets, which would run out of fuel in a short time of constantly maintaining control. The ISS uses something vaguely similar to these control wheels, it’s called a control moment gyro. It uses gyroscopic precession to move the space station (more specifically to apply torque to it), rather than using direct torque from a reaction wheel like this one. Think of a Segway where the wheel is in the air. That is a simplified analogy to what this thing is doing, [just saw your username], you smeghead. ;)
@PushandillPushback yea...they do....please don't be an idoit. Flying cars are not hard to make, but normal people cant drive them, so no ,they are not being produced, they would never sell..... how many accidents happen on the ground....you think flying cars would be better for usa, land of car accidents vs the world. Whats the definition on a car? Now just understand you can at propellers and jet engines. If you have the money. You can modify until it flys. We have all the tech. Thats my point. www.aeromobil.com/specification
Why doesn't anyone understand how amazing this really is...? Good job man, what you demonstrated/ created is something amazing. It's a self correcting system with actual "pinpoint" accuracy.
unreal demonstration. i love how this is coming up as we're watching spacex deal with the control on Starship. nice visuals on the basics of how that all works.
@authorization batman I mean its perfectly possible. it'd take some beefy motors but its not impossible. itd be something like this : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n_6p-1J551Y.html
Beautiful, expecially how it seems to adjust its balance to spin down the reaction wheels so they don't get saturated. Even with the center of mass shifting and oscillating.
Google, get out of my brain. I was literally thinking abut doing something like this for a Halloween costume prop the other day. I haven't searched on it or talked about it or anything, just thinking about it. Now this shows up in my feed.
@@En_theo that is because with drones they are essentially an isolated system the angular momentum cant be drained anywhere except for a bit through air drag so the reaction wheels on a drone become saturated easily, but with a stick like this the reaction wheels can drain their angular momentum by imparting a force downwards, through the stick and onto the table (and probably through the wire bundle) making it easier to have a system that doesn't become saturated.
@@halted_code I need to learn more about this draining of force and momentum stuff...I am an engineer could you please direct me to some article book or research paper on this stuff?
Hi Mike, This is creating stability, in an unstable system. An excellent presentation! I study the dynamic behaviour of all natural eyes. This is a superior instruction tool and simulation. Thanks.
That’s great! It can be so hard to bring those things from software to reality. I’m sure you had many issues trying to bugfix and make it real but it payed off!
Okay, for fun, try balancing it on your finger while the reaction wheels are going. Can you overcome your natural inclination to balance it or will it be fighting you the whole time?
The detection part for sure. But they use propellants for correction. Haven't seen giant flywheels sticking out of the rockets... But, they are used to orientate space telescopes.
I wonder, if you have a long stick like a broom handle, put one end on the ground, put a foot against the side and with your hand on top pull the other way, would it be possible to balance on a stick? I mean, you can pull yourself up onto a stick and it will fall over, but if you were to try to move your center of gravity around whilst on the stick, would you be able to balance forever? Maybe not since if you try to stick a leg out in one direction, newtons something law will make the rest of ur body stick out a bit the other way, ultimately not changing your cg. But maybe? What do y’all think?
Hey Mike, I am just starting a project which is pretty similar to what you've done here. I was just curious to know why you decided to make the length of your "leg" on the balancing robot so long?
Great video! THanks for posting. Questions: 1.) What are the motor units used? What does the control circuit look like? 2.) What is the IMU used? 3.) What is the MCU used? Thanks!
RU-vid: Hey, want to see this video from 4 years ago Me: Really (Edit) I said this not because RU-vid is not showing me new things it’s because I wished I could of seen this video sooner because it’s so cool what this guy did. Thanks for 97 likes😁
Really cool! I'm also going to make something like you made. I was wondering what the maximum rpm was of your motors. I saw that your motor's max rpm is 11000, but did you really reach these values? Do you know the approximate maximum rpm you reached and its torque? Thanks a lot!
Wouldn't this be useful for energy production. The wheels constantly turning a turbine, especially if you made a large scale version of this in the wind?
Hello @MikeRouleau, I love this kind of science I'm a french man and I have a speech to prepare for integrate engineering school. So I just want to know how you made this? Is it all home-made or some pieces are manufactured? Thank you
Do you have a vacuum chamber to test this in? Without air currents in the room or drag from the flywheel arms, it could get pretty stable over long periods. What's the longest you've run it?
By braking the reaction wheels near-instantly, you could -maybe- be able to get it to stand up on its own like the Cubli. Does it have too much mass at the top to do that? Would you need a wheel in the third axis?
