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Quadrotor Maintains High Speed Flight With Just Three Rotors

In 2014, we wrote about some failsafe software from ETH Zurich that allowed a quadrotor to remain fully controllable even with one busted motor. The unbalanced torque generated by three motors means that a quadrotor can't help but spin, but with a bit of cleverness, software can compensate for the spin and keep the quadrotor stable and even allow it to obey control inputs, allowing it to land more or less safely. This is a valuable capability, but there are a few things that it doesn't address. For example, what if your quadrotor loses a rotor over an unsafe area? What if something happens to it when it's already traveling at a high speed?