We did some more IRIS+ testing this past weekend using the Pebble watch and "Follow Me" mode. Here is the video-
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We did some more IRIS+ testing this past weekend using the Pebble watch and "Follow Me" mode. Here is the video-
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Having said that - heading control looks good, going by the video; just seems to be x/y position refresh rate looks a bit slow.
Or...watching it again...it looks like the x/y speed is controlled by the normal waypoint speed. Which is slower than Andrew's walking speed, obviously. Or below a speed that WP speed can manage.
So it tries to accelerate to the preset x m/s and quickly reaches the follow me "near" x/y position tolerances because it caught Andrew up, so it stops. The "far" x/y position tolerance is quickly hit (as Andrew continues to walk away), so it tries to accelerate to the normal WP speed again. And repeat.
Somebody stop me now, if I'm talking rubbish. It's just a theory.
Ignoring the weight issue, I think Superwalloon has a valid point - it is a bit "stop/start" in the video. Maybe a telemetry polling rate issue? It looks like an update command is only being sent/received every 5 seconds or so. It looks like a programmatic issue, rather than a physical one, so should (hopefully) be an easy fix/tweak.
Would have been neat if the entire flight from start to finish was controlled by watch. It's technically much easier than Google Glass (does anyone remember that heap of trash?), but expensive.