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Or just fly a Y-6 configuration instead of a quad and you can afford to loose a prop/motor... no additional software/algos needed.


Very true, but with the caveat that you have now increased your motor, prop, and ESC budget by 50%. And of course this will impact your battery life, as coaxial arrangements trade away some efficiency for this redundancy.


Then just make it a hex copter and do away with the coaxial arrangement. You still have 6 motors, 3 per rotation direction. With good software you could still fly with the loss of one motor per rotation direction with practically no control degradation. You could lose 2 on a single rotation direction and still likely control it enough to land.




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