Loon Copter, air + surface + underwater drone, Oakland University, Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA

This is a video of our aquatic "Loon Drone" being tested in the pool at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). To our knowledge, this is the world's first demonstration of a multirotor drone capable of both flight and underwater maneuvering.

Publications describing the project are still in the works.

This is our first implementation. There still is a lot of room for improvements and studies.

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Video of the Loon Copter for the 2016 Drones for Good Competition. The Loon Copter was selected as 1 of 10 semifinalist in the international category. The competition had received 1017 entries from 165 countries.

The Loon Copter submarine drone project started in 2014 at Oakland University and is the first multi-rotor drone to successfully demonstrate flight, operation on the surface of water, as well as diving.

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