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Comment by eriknstr

Does Cape allow independent control of the individual rotors? If so, I wonder how well the safety system would handle a drone being flown to its maximum altitude and then having the rotors on one side run in one direction and the other half of the rotors run the other way. In my mind this would cause the drone to rotate around a vector in the horizontal plane while gravity would be pulling the drone downwards. Higher altitude would give more time to build up the angular velocity of this rotation. If then the angular velocity is high as the drone approaches the ground, the system might not have time to recover stable flight. Thus the drone might crash.
parent eriknstr 9 years ago

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