DARPA specialists presented a helicopter with a robotic landing gear for landing in the most difficult conditions.

A team of scientists and engineers from the Defense Advanced Research Institute (DARPA) presented a solution that will allow helicopters to land in areas with the most difficult terrain. This solution is a robotic chassis with “legs” that can bend, changing the position of the helicopter relative to the ground. So far, DARPA has not tested the chassis on a conventional helicopter, choosing a model as a test version, a reduced copy.

And the chassis has already shown excellent results. Specialists have equipped the model of the helicopter with several sensors that scan the landing site and provide information to the computer control system. In turn, the computer analyzes all data, and controls when landing the chassis accordingly. In the continuation - several animated images demonstrating the capabilities of this helicopter.

In particular, he was able to land partly on a wooden platform, partly on the ground.
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When developing the project, robotics were used as an example of insects. Earlier in DARPA have already created a robotic cockroach that can penetrate into the slightest gap. Shown in the DARPA and the robotman, sliding on the surface of the water, as a living prototype. Of course, natural objects were also used to create many other systems.

Possibilities of insects when landing can be called great. They can sit almost anywhere at any time. If the DARPA developments will be used to create a helicopter of normal size, such a device will be able to land almost anywhere, with the possible exception of the water surface. Such a helicopter will be able to get on the deck of a helicopter carrier even with very strong rolling.