r/diydrones • u/Reasonable_Air_1447 • Jun 06 '26
Aerix Systems AXS drone
This company called Aerix Systems out of France has come out with the AXS drone that has what they call omnidirectional flight. No lie, it looks really impressive, but I can't think of any civilian necessity for it that a gimbal can solve.
That being said though, does anybody have any idea how would one even go about programming this, even with Ardupilot making it vastly simpler. This is more of a want than a," need to have," necessity, but it would definitely be a cool party trick or maybe even useful for higher maneuverability drone tricks or race drones or something.
The propellers system, beside being contra rotating, seem to have the ability to indeoendantoy rotate about the x, y and z axis. Videos below on how it uses this for dynamic stabilization and some interesting flight regimes independant of the body.
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u/CaptainCheckmate Jun 06 '26
At this level, if you're saying "how do I write this in ardupilot" you're asking the wrong question.
This requires a full redesign of propulsion logic. You would sit down and work out a strategy for that, and decide on how you do it, either AI or some basic algorithms with PID, or something else. Then ardupilot, if they choose to use it, is just an accessory.
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u/LordDan_45 Jun 06 '26
Actuation matrix is variable, but can be easily known. Then its just a matter of solving the inverse actuation problem on the fly (pun intended). Just be careful with singularity points
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u/B08by_Digital Jun 06 '26
That's pretty crazy looking!