Making Loiter more aggressive

Posted by Edgar Scott on January 12, 2014 at 10:52am

Stabalize works great, hauls butt etc

Loiter is slow like traveling thru molasses

Any way I can make loiter more like stabilize flight.

Nothing crazy now, just a little closer to the stabilize "feel" all around, I know I can get Alt Hold but then it can drift, I want to maintain GPS

Thanks, Ed,

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  • Developer
    Randy January 12, 2014 at 4:51pm

    I've recently fixed up some of the flight mode wiki pages including the one for Loiter.

    I suspect what will help is to increase the loiter speed (WPNAV_LOIT_SPEED) parameter.

    I don't think that people should need to adjust the Loiter PID or Loiter Rate PID values anymore.

    Drift mode is great but it uses a manual throttle (i.e. altitude is not maintained automatically).  That will likely be changed in a future version.

  • Edgar Scott January 12, 2014 at 3:44pm

    Thanks guys, Ill try both of them.

  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson January 12, 2014 at 11:25am

    Also, you might want to try Drift mode, which is a very cool mode that has aggressive airplane-like control while maintaining the Loiter-like behavior of stopping when you release the sticks. 

  • Shyam Balasubramanian January 12, 2014 at 11:00am

    Increase rate Loiter (P) for faster correction. An increase of this P value would bring the correction of desired GPS (x, y) position to the current GPS (x, y) position close to 0, faster.

    Beware, this can also make it oscillate if P is too high!

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