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First bumpy, but successful landing in X-plane with Erlang autopilot

Posted by Ben on September 14, 2010 at 3:02am

Quick update on my last post. My PID control and waypoint following is still in the early stages, but I've managed to take off and land with my autopilot in X-plane. Here's the landing:

First bumpy, but successful landing in X-plane with Erlang autopilot from Benjamin Nortier on Vimeo.

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Daniel NIkolov September 17, 2010 at 4:52pm

Yeah for the most part. Keep me updated on your progress as it seems like a good practice and tuning system for your autopilot.
Ben September 16, 2010 at 7:12am

The aim of the project is to run the autopilot on something like a beagleboard, so at the moment the autopilot code is running on the same machine as the simulator. Thus, there is no need to handle the serial data at this point. When I get there, I will probably use the C code from the FTDI driver pages to implement a FTDI serial driver (http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm). Does that answer your question?
Daniel NIkolov September 14, 2010 at 2:33pm

What type of source code are you using to run the serial data into the autopilot and the instructions back out? I have heard that some people are using Perl to do this. Do you have any reference material to the coding?

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