Can the bird fly on three motors?

[Brebs]

Hi there,

I am trying to work out one of the very basic situations that I would imagine all of us may encounter.

• If the solo loses a motor in flight what does it do?
• Is there any event attached to a sensor for this via API or otherwise?

Being a smart drone, I'd say this is perhaps the most obvious questions to me now that really should be advertised if it does this well.


I am thinking not, but lets see hey?

 

[LuvMyTJ]

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It can be done. Here is an interesting video showing it...

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[Brebs]

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Thank you for the welcome and information. And certainly food for thought on the various solutions we aim to build. The solo by 3dr appears not to have the supported event logic to assist with a motor burn out in flight, unless I am wrong, this is something I need to ensure I build into the logic of our solutions. I'll keep reseaching and I'lll look into the flight controller to see if that exists.

 

[LuvMyTJ]

I don't believe any consumer UAV's have this capability yet, but the proof of concept is there so hopefully in the future we will see something similar on consumer models.

 

[Anthony Horrigan]

Now do this with some Solo drones and I would be impressed.
Excellent information video of what is possible.

 

[Nick F]

Without asking too much to our Solo, a controlled/slowed descent in an event of a motor failure would be enough to me...

 

[Brebs]

Without asking too much to our Solo, a controlled/slowed descent in an event of a motor failure would be enough to me...

Hey there,

I agree, it is one thing to have a full log, it is another to save your camera and other assets from getting destroyed from a motor burnout.

 

[yt lee]

For Solo or any commercial quads in the current market, the quad will flip and crash when ONE motor is malfunction. The quad shown in post #2 has special FC and in a controlled (windless) environment.