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Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by hazrmard on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:07PM (#48736746)
This is very impressive! I researched fault-tolerant octorotor control using RL in grad school for a NASA project. Perhaps this may be helpful[1, see section 8.3]! The field is moving fast, so there may be better or more suitable approaches out there now.

For folks who are interested in UAV physics, I wrote up an explainer[2].

[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RTEVRd0XCWLuDXY2nkbmYuOaa5x...

[2]: https://iahmed.me/post/drone-physics/

Re:Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior h... by quibono on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:40PM (#48739582)
This is lovely, thanks!