quadrotor

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quad·ro·tor

 (kwŏd′rō′tər)
n.
1. A quadcopter.
2. A VTOL aircraft having four rotors that tilt up to provide lift for takeoff and can then be tilted forward for propulsion while in flight.

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Caption: Student-researcher from Carnegie Mellon University remotely maneuvers quadrotor micro-air vehicle through narrow hallways of Naval Research Laboratory's ex-USS Shadwell to smoke-filled, GPS-denied area to identify fire's location and transmit data back to research team, Mobile, Alabama, November 5, 2014 (U.S.
Nonlinear robust adaptive tracking control of a quadrotor UAV via immersion and invariance methodology.
(25) In January 2015, a quadrotor UAV crash landed on the White House lawn and three months later a gyrocopter--the size of a larger UAV--landed on the lawn near the US Capitol, flying unimpeded through restricted airspace.
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