Suggestion for a new Flight Mode - Acrobatic Stabilized Mode

Hello everyone,

In my opinion the ardupilot project made huge steps forward in the last year. Many new features had been implemented.

But I am still missing something. I have an acrobatic plane (Acromaster) and already tested it with Ardupilot. But there is no possibility for acrobatic flight in any mode than manual. A mode that simply does what a normal gyro does would be great. A mode that tries to hold the current attitude. And not going back to level flight.

It would give Ardupilot another interessting function. I am sure that there is a demand for this "half autonomous mode".


I already had some experiences with a gyro in an acrobatic plane on aileron axis. It is helpful for flying very slow and for hoovering.

Everyone, please tell me what you think about. I'm sure the effort for implementing it would be quite small.


Thank you!

Tags: acrobatic, arduplane, flight mode, gyro, stabilized

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Randy on October 14, 2012 at 6:30pm

Felix,

     We've got a new member of the dev team, Leonard Hall and we're very much talking about implementing something like this.  Leonard's done a few blog posts on what he's thinking about.  It won't make 2.7.4 but likely will make the release after that.

Permalink Reply by Felix Böwing on October 15, 2012 at 1:38am
Interesting to hear that this mode is already planned. I read that the arducopter has such an acro mode already implemented. Maybe this fragment of code will also work for arduplane.

Another interesting feature for the future could be autonomous acrobatic flight. Just an idea.

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