On Fri, 27 May 2005 15:26:58 -0500, Curtis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Vance Souders wrote: > > > I want to implement an acrobatic AI autopilot and was debating a few > > different ways of tackling the problem. I was thinking of either > > creating a spline based system or tuning the current autopilot to > > fit my needs. In a spline based system, the user can sit in the > > cockpit as the plane “flies” the spline – if I do it this way, I > > would ignore the FDM and provide the gauges with bogus data that > > would most likely be interpolated from values specified at nodes > > along the spline. It seems to me that the spline system would be > > easier than getting the autopilot to do exactly what I need > > (precision formation flying, landing, taxiing). > > > > I’m still investigating different ways of handling this, so I’m > > open to any suggestions people can provide. > > > > I think it all boils down to what you want to accomplish. If you just > need to see the aircraft going through the desired path then you could > fake it ... but an autopilot that knows how to fly aerobatics would > also be a really interesting project to tackle. It all depends on > what you want to get out of it as the end result. ..I read him as wanting to do a RC F3A etc pattern work autopilot, this can both drift with the wind, and crab upwind to stay in the box, say taking a tournament program as input and just fly it, some guys fly these for a living. I managed to get my part of such a tournament at least as expensive, I shut down town, as in half of the city. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
