it has been discussed before in this mail list (see below) Flightgear�s capability to connect an external input to remotely control the flight simulation. I was wondering if anyone has ever connected a real autopilot (hardware) into flight gear in real time.
What I was dreaming of doing was to connect a signal from an autopilot (RS232 connection/HyperTerminal) to another computer (network?) with Flightgear and virtually flight a 3 D model of the airplane in the simulator in real time using the airplane attitude from the autopilot.
It will be fantastic to be able to either reproduce a flight from flight data or to see a 3 D model of the airplane as it flies
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Jhosee
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:33:51 -0600 � Previous message: [Flightgear-users] driving aircraft with autopilot � Next message: [Flightgear-users] Scenery/airport quibbles � Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Wendell Turner writes:
Is it possible to have a script/program/socket 'drive' an aircraft around using its autopilot?
That is, I would like an external controller to dynamically create either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or --flight-plan=[file] constructs, send them to the fgfs, and have the aircraft change course.
Are there any of the i/o options (e.g. --props=xxx) be used to dynamically change the waypoint list, then have the autopilot pick up on this?
Yes, this is the sort of process we want to encourage. We have the capability for external scripts to connect up and remotely control and monitor flightgear. As script writers become embolden to do more and more interesting things, this will expose the need to add new internal commands.
So, it looks like we need to add a built in command (or commands) to manage waypoints (which shouldn't be too hard) and then this will be trivial to do from a remote script.
At the moment given the current functionality, you could build an external script to do VOR navigation via the autopilot. That would be kind of interesting ...
Another idea is that you could use the heading hold functionality and position information from flightgear, then have the external script maintain the list of waypoints and adjust the target heading of the autopilot to seek the next waypoint.
Regards,
Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
_________________________________________________________________
Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
_______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
