How to Use quadrotor in a Sentence

quadrotor

noun
  • However, if two adjacent rotors or more than two rotors fail, our method cannot save the quadrotor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The quadrotor platform used in the experiments.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Scaling up from a small model to a full-sized quadrotor biplane is much riskier, so the team is building an exact digital replica first.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Furthermore, during the traverse, the quadrotor should maximize the distance from the edges of the gap to avoid collisions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Depending on what the wind is doing, this may result in a path that’s not the shortest distance, which is what the quadrotor would be trying to do if the wind wasn’t a factor.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2016
  • This also means that using the wind planner can sometimes result in a successful trip, whereas a direct route planner could leave your quadrotor out of juice short of its goal.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2016
  • But this is not an issue for commercial quadrotors because many of them have more powerful processors than a TX2.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2021
  • After passing through the gap, the quadrotor also uses a downward-facing distance sensor and camera to stabilize itself.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • The one little asterisk to this research was that the quadrotors were provided the location and orientation of the gap in advance, rather than having to figure it out for themselves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Also generally, quadrotor range does not take into account the fact that the quadrotor is flying around outdoors, where wind can be a significant factor that either helps you out our ruins your day.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2016
  • O_o Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2023
  • In the example below, the planner that accounts for the wind has the quadrotor sheltering next to and downwind from structures, while the traditional direct route planner exposes the quadrotor to a strong headwind.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2016
  • PiDrone is a quadrotor platform created to accompany an introductory robotics course.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Autonomous inspection of powerlines with quadrotors is challenging.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The main contribution of the Picobug is the nonlinear controller software and the use of minimal hardware, consisting of only one motor for the crawler to move forward and combining the control from the quadrotor for turning on the ground.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016
  • Aerodynamic forces render accurate high-speed trajectory tracking with quadrotors extremely challenging.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 12 Feb. 2021
  • By modeling how wind blows around dense concentrations of buildings, quadrotors can plan intelligent trajectories to seek out tailwinds and avoid headwinds, boosting their efficiency and potentially leading to both higher speed and longer range.
    — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 7 June 2016
  • This lovechild of a quadrotor and a UC Berkeley’s DASH robot displays agility in both terrestrial and aerial operations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2016
  • To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a fully autonomous quadrotor system capable of landing on a moving target, using only onboard sensing and computing, without relying on any external infrastructure.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The quadrotor used by the University of Zurich researchers featured a (1) Insightness SEEM1 sensor; (2) Intel Upboard computer, running the detection algorithm; and a (3) Lumenier F4 AIO flight controller, which received commands from a ground station.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 May 2019

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