This latest video from the D’Andrea lab shows a quadrotor performing a looping trajectory while balancing an inverted pendulum at the same time.
The video is pretty self-explanatory and includes lots of the technical details – enjoy!
The work, which will be detailed in an upcoming paper, was done by Julien Kohler, Michael Mühlebach, Dario Brescianini, and Raffaello D’Andrea at ETH Zürich. You can learn more about the Flying Machine Arena here.