Kitts,
Your idea is an interesting one, and I would be interested is hearing
about anything that comes of it.
I am working on a UAV project at Virginia Commonwealth University where
we have made use of FlightGear for test purposes to fly our plane,
hardware in the loop, on the simulator. Essentially, we wrote an
application that would forward control positions from the on-board
flight control system received in telemetry into flight gear, and we
would use the position and velocity data from the flight gear FDM to
generate "fake" GPS reports that we sent to the plane in place of the
GPS receiver.
I did consider using Flight Gear as a feed back tool while we were
actually in flight, but we didn't really have the time or the right
sensor information. We are using the same Co-Pilot system Curtis is
using in his project and GPS for navigation, so we don't have any real
attitude (pitch, roll, yaw) information, and we only get position and
velocity updates once per second. We are working towards a system with
rate gyros and barometric altitude/airspeed sensors, and may consider
integrating flight gear further with our ground control station.
I do intend to create a website and publish a couple of papers about the
project, but I am waiting until after the competition we are preparing
for (in 2 weeks) before doing so. I will drop a note on the list about
it when it is available in case anyone wants to take a look.
-Jeff
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