X-Prize level challenge: Build bespoke drone. Go to a "drone website" and download a "learning autopilot", hit go. It wobbles, but flies
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. Nope. You underestimate how hard it is to stably identify+control an unknown device. Waay beyond PID level.
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. Closest I know of was a mode id/reconfig system called Remote Agent that flew on Deep Space 1 ti.arc.nasa.gov/tech/asr/plann
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. That's because decade of research went into making quad+ rotors stable in a large envelope, not because the controller was smart
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. I'm saying you can't. You have to stay within a tight parameterized design space for that to work. Random novel drone, no.
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interesting but grad student in my lab was doing roughly that with (non quad) copters with then current 15+ year old tech, why xprize?

