Yep -that's exactly the sort of thing I was referring to. The Panavia Tornado uses a lookahead radar to evaluate the terrain and build an elevation profile, upon which it overlays a ski-toe curve flight envelope. The terrain avoidance system ensures the flight envelope avoids the terrain by looking for intersections of the two curves:)
A fully featured terrain avoidance system would be expensive within FG, in terms of resources, but I think simpler and less resource hungry schemes are possible, certainly in straight-line flight, and which would be a great improvement over the current facility. LeeE On Friday 04 May 2007 00:38, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > Hmm... maybe it's too late and I'm too tired. Did I > understand right? So maybe it would be possible to > simulate a Panavia Tornado's Terrain Following system? > > Or a better ground follwing of AI-vehicules? > > HHS > > --- leee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I was very interested to see this come into cvs. > > With it, it should be > > possible to implement proper look-ahead > > terrain-following algorithms. > > > > If anyone's interested, I gave a lot of thought to > > this topic and there are a > > number of options that provide varying pros & cons > > e.g. processing/sampling > > rate overheads vs. capabilities. The simplest > > scheme that occurred to me was > > for a simple straight line solution that would > > require just one sample per > > frame but there are more complex solutions that will > > handle turns. > > > > If anyone's interested drop me a line and I'll dig > > up the notes I made and try > > to knock them into better shape for discussion. > > > > LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
