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University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

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The graphs illustrate how the loss of one or more propellers reduce the capabilities of an octocopter vehicle, which may prevent it from completing its urban aerial mission.

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Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Kathleen Xu, Melkior Ornik and Hamza El-Kebir

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