Re: [Paparazzi-devel] Flight Plan for Soaring

[Reto Büttner]

Hi Todd,

thanks for the hints.

I actually am a full scale glider pilot myself as well. So I
understand the techniques of soaring thoroughly. The challenge is to
get this into paparazzi as simple as possible.

Dan Edwards has done a brilliant job in autonomous soaring:
http://goosetech.homelinux.com/soaring/index.php
Unfortunately he used piccolo of cloudcap, not paparazzi :-(

I am still open to any paparazzi flight plan details!

Cheers, Reto

2011/2/28 Todd Sandercock <address@hidden>:
> As a glider pilot I will say now that there is a lot more to soaring than
> just turning in an updraft.... You may want to do some research into thermal
> centring techniques first. This link is a pretty good
> start: 
> http://jesuscondorbase.blogspot.com/2010/11/thermaling-pt2-centering-techniques.html
> Also there  is a couple of papers floating around the internet from NASA
> where the experiment with autonomous soaring. Very good
> reference: http://dtrs.dfrc.nasa.gov/archive/00001620/01/214611-REV1.pdf
> This is just a start....
> Todd
> ________________________________
> From: Reto Büttner <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 9:33:22 AM
> Subject: [Paparazzi-devel] Flight Plan for Soaring
>
> Hi guys,
>
> for autonomous soaring I want the plane to circle, as long as it is in
> an updraft. Will a statement similar to the following work?
>
> <circle radius="50" until="estimator_vz < 0.0" wp="WP" throttle="0.0"
> pitch="-5" vmode="throttle"/>
>
> Does the variable estimator_vz exist?
>
> Has someone in the paparazzi community already programmed a flight
> plan for autonomous soaring?
>
> Cheers,
> Reto
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