Piccolissimo, smallest self-powered flying vehicle, Modular Robotics Lab (ModLab), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Piccolissimo is the smallest self-powered flying vehicle. It is passively stable, which lets us use only one motor. If we pulse its motor, which is offset from the center of mass, at the frequency of the body rotation, we can make a net torque that steers the vehicle.

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