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This makes me wonder: imagine you have a quadcopter-type drone or something, where some of the propellers are mounted on inverted pendulums, or double-inverted
by etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
This makes me wonder: imagine you have a quadcopter-type drone or something, where some of the propellers are mounted on inverted pendulums, or double-inverted pendulums, or something equally wildly unstable.
Could one then learn to control it with deep learning, and maybe gain some benefits from doing so? Like gaining the rapid maneuverability that birds have.
- auxym 8y agoYou don't need an inverted pendulum to make an aircraft unstable. See the Grumman X-29, the forward-swept wing made it aerodynamically unstable, and it piloting it was only made possible by feedback control software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29