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Space Engineers

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6 Sep, 2014 @ 9:47am
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Autonomous Drone

Description
Thanks to the new sensor blocks it has become possible to create craft that pilot themselves. When a user enables the "Autonomous Flight" action group the craft will fly in a straight line until the rotor on it's right side trips a sensor causing the craft to yaw to the right until the rotor completes it's circuit over the sensor. This will cause the craft to fly in a somewhat star pattern. This can be adjusted by tweaking the yaw rate of the yaw gyros and/or the rotor speed. Furthermore when the front collision sensors detect another object the main engines are cut, retro rockets are fired and the yaw gyros are automatically tripped causing the craft to back away from the object until clear. All in all this is an autonomous craft driven by 4 sensors and a rotor that's easy enough to deconstruct without much of a headache. Enjoy! :D
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Doghole 4 Oct, 2014 @ 2:26am 
So you've essentially created a ship that you can't crash. By the way, does it hold a crew?