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Permalink Reply by Michael Pursifull on July 1, 2012 at 1:10am

http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/AC2_Mission

http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/wiki/Python

Or write anything you want. You have all the source code... here is something I wrote/hacked in over just a few hours, a simple extension to the existing code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDqJxULPsPw&feature=g-upl

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Permalink Reply by Lee on July 1, 2012 at 1:10pm

That looks promising Mike, is that an ArduCopter simulator?  Have you uploaded it to your hardware and done real world tests yet?  I'd love to see footage of it  :)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pursifull on July 1, 2012 at 2:22pm

Its HiL. In this case, it's ArduPlane, but that isn't really the point. You can run ArduCopter in HiL too. This feature includes changes to ArduCopter, but is mainly focused on ArduPlane, since that is where loiter is, and what the person who asked about this needed. 

It is running on the hardware. The flight simulator is controlled by the APM. The simulator just pretends to be the control surfaces and the physics of the world.

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Permalink Reply by Lee on July 1, 2012 at 2:45pm

Very interesting!!!  I am psyched to finish my build phase  :)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pursifull on July 1, 2012 at 8:08pm

you'll never fully finish your build phase *wink*

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