Is there any plan to support mechanical brake on Rover?

[lida2003 (Daniel Li)]

Any plan to support brake or just no interest in this function?

Brake vs ESC Motor Braking, need Brake

Using rover 4.3, cube orange and an electric range rover (4wd version). I have a vehicle that weighs 1700 pounds and has a foot pedal for a brake (attached via a big servo that is hooked up to the Cube Orange) as well as having regenerative braking. This vehicle does not support a reverse throttle command to cause the motors to work in reverse. ESC braking is not an option for it. Regenerative braking was OK in the past but now I need it to use the “real brakes”. I do not see a way to assig…

Mechanical brake

Is there a way to set a mechanical brake for non manual modes? I can control a brake using a mix on my Tx in manual mode and rc pass though but can’t find anything in the config for a brake servo output. I have a large scale truck with a disc brake and my Tx mix has above mid stick as throttle, below mid stick the first 75% has the motor un powered and controls the brake and the last 25% releases the brake and controls reverse.

[Yuri_Rage]

This is easily handled via Lua script if you want the feature now. I’m unaware of plans to add it natively.

[Yuri_Rage]

I should add that I have also handled brake application in EdgeTX with a custom mix/function that applies the brake via RC when disarmed or when hold mode is selected via 6POS switch.

[lida2003 (Daniel Li)]

Is it possible to control a brake pedal using PWM? Is there a type of braking mechanism like this that can be used on a toy car? My model car can’t be controlled at all when going down a parking garage—it just keeps rolling down.

[Yuri_Rage]

Add a servo and some linkage. There are also linear actuators that can operate using a PWM signal. If the car is small enough, even a solenoid and relay could be employed.

See also, ATC_BRAKE

[lida2003 (Daniel Li)]

I noticed that there is a param called ATC_STOP_SPEED, is this mean ATC_BRAKE needs GPS or encoder to sensing the speed?

BTW, I didn’t find any ATC_BRAKE wiki docs for settings? any links or blog that use this feature?

[Yuri_Rage]

Stop speed has nothing to do with ATC_BRAKE. But any vehicle needs some type of speed sensing to be useful in any mode other than manual.

The parameter functions exactly as described in the parameter list. I don’t know of further documentation.