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SITL with X-Plane

Posted by Hunter Parris on January 19, 2013 at 4:32pm

I'm wondering if it is possible to use SITL with X-Plane instead of the other sims in the tutorial.  I'm awaiting my APM 2.5 and want to try out the APM on a UAV that I created in PlaneMaker.  I'm decent with Linux and Windows so any advice that someone can give on performing this please do share!  Thanks in advance.

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  • Samuel Rosenstein December 22, 2014 at 10:07am

    Yep, you can do this! We're working on building a plane in PlaneMaker, moving it over the FlightGear and connecting the SITL to flightgear. We'll be releasing instructions, code and videos at the end of the year that will explain how to do this.

    Also, you can rewrite runsim.py to connect to the XPlane UDP ports instead of the JSBSim ports, however I'm not sure what information XPlane's FDM provides. We're having a hard enough time just connecting to JSBsim through FlightGear (we're getting floating point errors in the Ardu.elf at the moment) so good luck!

    • Samuel Rosenstein > Samuel Rosenstein January 13, 2015 at 8:07am
      Yep, we've got it working with FG but it's a little buggy. The SITL wrapper for arduplane has a lot of unchecked floating point calculations so it dies every once and a while. We have our own repo and will be making it available soon (1-2 weeks) with instructions on how to set everything up. May I ask what plane you would like to use? We can test it in the sim we have and get a better idea of what we may need to fix before the first role out.
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