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I think I understand. Basically a quadcopter has no passive stabilizing effects that a fixed wing would be designed with. I'm still curious if there's any equation that expresses this kind of thing for a quadcopter.

I understand the normal stability requirements for an aircraft. Basically what you have just discussed is longitudinal stability where the center of gravity should be in front of the aerodynamic center for some static margin. There are other requirements for directional and lateral as well. What...

Hello everyone, Recently I've been looking at quadcopter technology. While looking through literature, I noticed that most people mention that a quadcopter is inherently unstable but no reasoning is provided. I looked a bit at the EOMs but that's a big mess that I don't have time for yet. I...