Flight Data of A Quadrotor Launched in the Air while Learning its own Flight Model and Controller

These flight logs and simulation datafiles form the basis of the analysis of


[1] T. M. Blaha, E. J. J. Smeur, and B. D. W. Remes, “Control of Unknown Quadrotors from a Single Throw,” Jun. 17, 2024, arXiv.2406.11723. Accepted at IROS 2024

[2] T. M. Blaha, E. J. J. Smeur, B. D. W. Remes, and C. C. de Visser “Flying a Quadrotor with Unknown Actuators and Sensor Configuration,” 2024, Accepted at IMAV 2024


They primarily show a small multirotor(s) response to

1. being launched in the air to about 4 meters altitude (by a pre-programmed "catapult" flight-mode)
2. forgetting its internal controller parameters [1]. Also forgetting the IMU orientation with respect to the actuators [2].
3. being subjected to a sequence of motor commands according to [1]
4. autonomous recovery to a position setpoint after the missing parameters have been identified and suitable control parameters have been calculated

The data may be analyzed with <https://github.com/tudelft/indiflightSupport/tree/iros_imav_2024> (snapshot also at <https://doi.org/10.4121/a5fa60a7-805c-4e13-a65e-1c65454eaa53>, which also reproduces the results in the papers above.
More information on the craft is available at <https://github.com/tudelft/indiflightSupport/wiki>