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This paper proposes an adaptive controller to provide for failure compensation for a coaxial rotor helicopter. It addresses the problem of instability due to damage to the rotors in a coaxial rotor helicopter, where degradation of or unexpected variations in thrust from the propellers are known to pose an especially serious risk. The key problems arising out of a situation of propeller failure are...