Re: [Autopilot] Fixed wing autopilot

[Vlad E. <vla...@ya...>]

Personally I never built one, but I've seen Aaron
posings in this mailing list where he says that if
aeroplane is more/less stable and levels itself if you
release controls then GPS intput fed into kalman
filter is enough to estimate vehicle's position,
speed, direction of flight and altitude at any point
of time. You don't need any other sensors for that.

Only if I really wanted to get fancy or if the
aeroplane is not stable I would keep the roll and
pitch gyros to prevent any sudden attitude changes.
also horizontal roll accelerator sensor could be
useful to make turns coordinated. I would also add an
air speed sensor.

 --- Anton van den Hengel <an...@cs...>
wrote: > Hi All,
> 
> I've seen that it says in the faq that the autopilot
> can be applied to 
> fixed wing aircraft, but can anyone give me a few
> pointers?  I'm 
> guessing that there must be someone who's done this
> before?
> 
> Any ideas appreciated
> 
> Anton
> 
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