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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…
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Oh no doubt. I'm no drone expert!
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Hm making an AI assisted page and replacing the emdashes with double dashes seems like more work than to just rewrite the text yourself. Not sure why you would do that.
I don't think there's any shame in using LLMs to save time on documenting your projects. Let's be kind and positive to each other!!
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PID is more than enough to keep level. FPV relies on manual flight, but you can get Ardupilot for autonomous missions. There's no need for RL, nothing to gain here; level flight and following waypoints is a solved issue already. And frankly as a pilot, I'd rather not see any completely autonomous drones with no oversight in the sky - that's one incident away in which blame cannot be put solely on the operator from ge…
Interesting - thanks! OP's drone IS using RL and that's what jumped out at me - it felt a bit overkill for the usecase.
I'm sorry for the late response, I didn't realize someone had posted my project
I do not notice that the time of posts is reversed haha. I am confused whether you had build it. Thank you, it's cool!
I did start by designing/building a regular FC (no RL or anything) and am doing RL training afterwards, so I agree that the whole timeline looks a little confusing without background context since it goes real drone --> sim haha
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Counterpoint: -copter is a perfectly cromulent suffix. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-copter gyrocopter, helicopter, quadcopter, hexacopter, octocopter, parcelcopter, and—most famously— roflcopter, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter#/media/File:Roflco... They all have their own dictionary entries. Octocopter makes perfect sense. Everyone understands immediately what it means, and that's the only purpose of la…
Great examples. The English lexicon is continuously embiggened by the adoption and expansion of terms.
Hi!! I'm Karolina, and this is my project! Had no idea this got posted until someone DMed me about it on LinkedIn. Feel free to ask any questions or follow along via X (karolina_dubiel) Thanks so much for all the kind words, it means a lot!
Something I've wondered for octocopters - could using a ring instead of arms be beneficial for weight? 6.28r < 8r, but then again the arm radius is usually less than the full circle, and some components want to be centrally located, etc. I could imagine holding the central components in tension via light filaments (carbon fiber, nylon, etc) in tension, vs having to have rigid structure, but the small factor between 6…
This is cool as sugar! I have to ask though, how many end mills did you go through milling G10 fiberglass and carbon fiber‽ I've heard the dust from carbon fiber is second to asbestos for inhaling.