Last updated June 30, 1999
Blimp Movies
Two blimps maintains relative position and attitude
(June 99). The green blimp leads and turns to its left, the red then
follows. The green blimp then turns back, and again the red follows. The
wind
then blows the green blimp quite hard, and it moves towards the red blimp.
Regulate postion and attitude with respect to reference station.
This was a relatively calm day, but the wind still blows the blimp about
quite a bit.
(June 99)
takes off from ground, heads toward landing platform and
lands on the center of platform
(Sept 98)
Green blimp is given inertial command from ground station and Red blimp is trying
to maintain formation(altitude, heading, relative horizontal position).
(Sept 98)
(Sept 98)
(90 degree turn)Altitude and horizontal position is controlled by human.
(Oct 97)
(90 degree turn)It looks wandering around but yaw angle itself is
under precise closed loop control.
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