Re: [Flightgear-devel] Traffic 2020: Towards a new Development Model for FlightGear AI Traffic

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

On 11/11/2016 02:20 PM, Durk Talsma wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> After a long break, I feel the time is right for picking up where I left
> off in early 2012: The continued development of the FlightGear AI
> Traffic system. After a couple of years of intense involvement,
> development came to quite a sudden halt after my day job
> responsibilities had to take precedence. I’ve been very reluctant to
> pick up the pace again afterwards, because I’ve been in much doubt
> whether to continue with the existing code base or to restart from scratch.


> Comments are welcome.

One thing which has been suggested (I think by James) and I have been 
thinking about is making AI traffic a bit smarter on itself.

Which made me think that every AI aircraft might need:
* a simple autopilot
* a simple linear 6 DoF FDM:
    - I think both YAim and JSBSim are too much for this
    - LaRCsim may be perfect.

Then you would instruct the AI model to fly from way-point to way point 
and let the autopilot decide which actions to take for a certain stage 
(gear up/down, flaps extended/retracted, compensate for wind, like 
crabbing, possibly gear compression, etc).

By building it up in modules like this from the start you could start 
with very simple code but make it smarter and more realistic due time.

Erik

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