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Re:Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second C... by asteli on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:39PM (#20621606)
I recall a quadcopter control mode that spins the entire craft quite rapidly, exchanging yaw control for altitude control.

Found a vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA

Re:Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second C... by bigiain on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:21AM (#20623273)
Without even clicking that I knew it was gonna be ETH Zurich... They do pure magic. Pretty much nobody _else's_ quadcopters can survive a motor failure... (But it'll come, presumably. Amazing software is cheaper than redundant hardware, after all...)
Re:Swiss Post Suspends Drone Delivery Service After Second C... by toxik on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:33AM (#20624532)
Not to detract from how cool this work is but the preconditions for this to work are quite far-reaching. It is based on bridging the reality gap by having that gap approach zero - by removing error sources from the real world rather than model and account for them. Same goes for other ASL work.