On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Eli Jordan wrote:
> Hi
> I am new to flight gear, but am using it in a multiple flight vehicle
> simulation system for my thesis, this system will be used to research aerial
> search patterns. To do this I need to be able to control flight gear from
> the search algorithm, running on a separate machine. I was wondering what
> would be the best approach to achieve this? I have had a look on the web
> site/wiki and found out about the telnet interface to the property tree
> (also, is there info on the syntax of each variable in the property tree?)
> and thought that the route manager accessed through telnet would be able to
> solve my problems, but as far as I could see the route manager only allows
> for pre set waypoints, such as airports, i was hoping to be able to input
> co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) and have the auto pilot fly between
> these. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
At a lower level, the FlightGear waypoint system can handle any arbitrary
latitude and longitude and altitude. However, something that might work
better for you (?) would be to just set up a basic autopilot that can hold a
commanded heading, altitude, speed, etc. and then monitor the flight
location from the remote search algorithm and pass heading updates to the
autopilot.
The autopilot target values are all stored in the property system, so it's
really straightforward to change them from a remote application using the
"telnet" interface. And likewise you could monitor aircraft location
through the same interface.
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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