Researchers Keep Drones Aloft Despite Rotor Failure #drone #droneday

Exciting research from UZH Robotics and Perception Group on YouTube:

In this work, we propose the first algorithm that combines fault-tolerant control and onboard vision-based state estimation to achieve position control of a quadrotor subjected to complete failure of one rotor.

See more on YouTube and GitHub

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