Re: [Flightgear-devel] PID Controller Bug?

2005-09-27 Thread Hans-Georg Wunder
Hello Jeff, I found the same bug some days ago and I reported it here on the lists. Your solution was also my first approach, but it did not work for the Integrator-part. The value ep_n is wrong for the next cycle. But after a looot of testing I found this solution: //

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PID Controller Bug?

2005-09-27 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I seem to recall Erik commited a change to the autopilot code in the last week or so. Does that fix something? Did that introduce a new problem? This is pretty subtle, complex code so people shouldn't be messing with it too much unless they are really sure they know what's going on with it.

[Flightgear-devel] A little emergency encountered inside FlightGear

2005-09-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
I was practicing landing the unlandable today, and ran into a little emergency. It is a bit amusing and I thought I'd share it with you guys. http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-001.jpg http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-003.jpg As you can see, there is a problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PID Controller Bug?

2005-09-27 Thread Jeff McBride
Ahh, yes. I see your point. Since the change in output is based on change in error (not current error), if the amount of output shift is altered but the last error (ep_n_1) is not the two will effectively become out of sync. In fact, the same thing must have been happening when delta_u_n was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A little emergency encountered inside FlightGear

2005-09-27 Thread flightgear
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 04:48, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: In addition, each time I press F3, two screenshots are made: one ordinary screenshot, and another with a dialog box which looks similar to this (http://www.students.yorku.ca/~ampere/fgfs-screen-004.jpg). well, I hacked the code