WindShaper
April 8, 2025
A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.
NASA/John Melton
April 9, 2025
The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover’s deck on Feb. 20, 2021.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research. The WindShaper is ideal for generating arbitrary wind gradients and wind gusts via a simple Python API. A companion WindProbe is also available for quick surveys of flows. The WindProbe utilizes the lab’s OptiTrack motion capture system to extract the position and orientation of the 5-hole cone probe located on the probe tip.
•Large dynamic fan array: 9’x7’, 1134 fans arranged as 567 ‘wind pixels’
•Wind speeds: 0 to 16 m/s (0 to 36 mph/31 kts)
•Acceleration: 4 m/s2, Deceleration: 2.5 m/s2
•Each fan is programmable via Python scripting
•Replicates steady winds, gusts, and wind gradients
WindProbe for handheld mobile wind data collection.
WindShaper