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FlyPT Mover 3.5.3

Discussion in 'FlyPt Mover' started by pmvcda, May 30, 2019.

  1. GTakacs

    GTakacs Member

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    So question: I have a 6DOF hexapod and the pedal mount is outside of the actuators but below the COR and the top of the actuators. This means that there are some extreme angles where it would interfere with one of the actuators in the front. So i have to limit the angles/moves to ensure there is never interference between my rig and the pedals.

    The issue is that this makes it where my limits are way below what the normal envelope of the rig could/should be.

    Is there any way to implement an "aggregate" limit so it ensures I'm not adding all the sway/roll/pitch at the same time but allow individual movements to maximize?

    Additionally, The Pose limits only apply to the individual roll/pitch elements but not at the aggregate, ie. I can have a limit of 15 degrees on the mixed sway and 15 degrees on roll but I can't have a limit of 15 degrees for the aggregate. This means that my rig will receive possibly as much as 30 degrees from the pose, which may not be ideal. Sure I can limit in the rig at this stage, but what if I wanted to limit in the pose?

    I also find the part about "range" in the pose settings not ideal. It works if you're doing a simple linear translation but it also limits your input slider in manual control to only reach that maximum. This I think is wrong. The input and output should have its own separate range.

    Also, does anyone have some 6DOF profiles for car racing they could share? I'd love to see what others did with their configs.
  2. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    upload_2024-5-21_12-37-4.png

    Look what I have for the new release.
    It's not fully functional yet (95%, still missing a small part of he code)
    You define a volume (cylinder) and Mover tests colisions with actuators...
    I think that's what you want?

    With the new motion calculation, I avoid the colision and keep it moving with motion compensation.
    But, this is only for linear hexapods. For other rig types I don't have this feature

    hmmm, there's also an English error there :eek:
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  3. PeterW

    PeterW alias Wickie

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    Hello
    Hello FlyPT!
    So great to see your continous hard work and improvements on mover!!! Thank you so much!!

    When I had a look to your new rig configuration window, I was immedaiately missing the "dislocation by turn".
    upload_2024-5-21_15-31-35.png
    You kindly implemented this feature for me in a mover test-Version (3.6.0 beta-version) to be able to test the official Odrive firmware. This feature is soooooo great and important !
    I am using this feature in my Odrive linear 6DOF since over a year now and it works perfect! Odrive has such a huge potential most people dont know yet.
    So please please keep this feature - I am sooooo keen on using this in a new official mover release!
    Thousand thanks!!
    Wickie

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  4. Marco Annunziata

    Marco Annunziata Member Gold Contributor

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    Pedro, that's exactly what I needed. Thank you very much for your job!
  5. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    Don't worry, it's in,
    The window was and is too crowded, so I added a new control:

    upload_2024-5-21_15-30-1.png

    Actuator settings are inside this window.
    While in this rig they share the same settings, in other rigs thay can change. In those cases there's more than one of those controls, like here:

    upload_2024-5-21_15-32-3.png

    1 for the 4 feets, 1 for surge and one for sway/yaw actuators.
    All have the turns included.

    The only thing missing right now is speed calculation because it needs feedback and I will leave it for later if needed.

    Colisions are prepared for all rigs, but only the linear 6 dof has the ui for that.
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  6. Marco Annunziata

    Marco Annunziata Member Gold Contributor

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    Perdo, hy does the speed have to have the feedback?
    Would be enough to set a maximum speed on each actuator which runs in parallel with the real actuators.
  7. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    Because the idea of speed is to use PID to calculate the speed to reach a specific position.
    For that you need to know the current position and without feedback it's always zero.
  8. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    Adding speed calculation is easy.
    Adding feedback is a nightmare...
    I have some things implemented for that, but I would prefer avoid talking about it. To many promises right now... Just tell you that the feedback can be done through sources and Mover is now using variables everywehere.
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  9. stil550

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    Would it be possible to take a look at MSFS's Yaw Acceleration please? The values are extremely jumpy and noisy, impossible to use compared to other axis accelerations.
  10. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    I think that is solved on the new release:

    upload_2024-5-21_17-31-54.png

    Red line is acceleration (without interpolation)
    I now have a more efficient code to calculate acceleration in MSFS

    Here with interpolation:

    upload_2024-5-21_17-35-21.png


    EDIT:

    I use interpolation, because on those images, Mover is calculating at 0.15ms or 6666Hz:

    upload_2024-5-21_17-38-20.png
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  11. stil550

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    New release as in the one you are working on that is not yet available, or is this something that I can download right away to start using?
    Thank you.
  12. GTakacs

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    Indeed this is precisely what I want :). So the only question is.... when? ;-)

    I got no response to the racing motion cueing ask, so next question, does anyone have a solid 6dof motion cueing setup that uses the classical motion cueing/mixing with washouts? I'm looking for plane profiles now.
  13. smitty

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    Give this file a try.. it washes out translations, rotations are a mix of actual position and acceleration. I've done a lot to make sure properly coordinated turns leave the rig flat in roll. If you need more or less pedal in turns, you'll feel it leaning. My rig is capable of +/-100mm translations and 30deg rotations so you might need to scale. The only thing left i need to work on is, if you point nearly straight up in sim like in a loop, it can be a little violent. :p

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  14. GTakacs

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    Thanks! I'll take a look and see what it does! Upon cursory look it looks very interesting!

    My rig has a native 32 degree roll, 40 degree yaw and +35/-32 degree pitch rotation and over +/- 350mm in translations. The problem is that with my pedal plate mounted I need to limit it to 15 degree rotation and 100mm translation to ensure I can never interfere the pedal plate with an actuator. Otherwise there is, albeit small, chance that the rig ends up in a state where we're full tilt and fully translated which would hit the actuator. I need to wait for the new version of FlyPT to take advantage of the entire DOF envelope, which is undoubtedly coming!
  15. Frada

    Frada New Member Gold Contributor

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    Hello, does anyone know if flypt mover works with Richard Burns rallye NGP7 rallyesimsfan?
  16. Spoofy

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    does anyone know how to set up a custom rig, or how to modify the Dof H3 rig.
    So i can input the dimensions of my own rig.
    Its 2dof plus traction loss or (yaw)
    At the moment i use the 2dof with rotating actuators with 2 motors, but would like to add a 3rd motor traction loss.
    I love the the motion compenstaion it works really good, would love it with the traction loss.


    Many Thanks Paul
  17. pmvcda

    pmvcda aka FlyPT

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    I will take a look, but only tomorrow. Not sure it's possible
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    cool

    many thanks Paul
  19. Nick Clements

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    I have just added a 3rd motor so I can have Yaw in flight. My question is how do I add this to my existing setup?. I have managed it using a second arduino in simtools with no issues.

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  20. Derfel

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    Hi does the mover work with any train simulators currently available?
    Thanks.