Episode 03 / Written companion

Customer recording track

Teaching a drone to weigh itself

The EKF estimates an effective mass, with a lesson in what hover cannot reveal.

Read the companion now. The recording is forthcoming; “Customer” identifies its planned release track.

Put the idea to work

The analytical fix

Augment an EKF with mass and a disturbance force, then feed those estimates back into the classical controller. This is the adaptive baseline the learned policy must earn its way past.

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