thank you so much for the advice pete! I managed to get my own frame flying in SITL. Still need to dive deeper into the codes to fine-tune it though. But at least it’s a good start and I’m learning a lot!
from another thread the question of using tilting for fore/aft movement in a trirotors front motors came up, and I see it has been considered before but wasn’t implemented. Is there a reason for not using vectored thrust tied to the elevator in MR mode? I think the elevator movement on the elevons would need to be scaled with forward speed, but would you want larger deflection at low speed? Maybe the answer is to scale the deflection down as speed increases and the elevons become more efficient. Ok, now I can visualize my plane in MR mode, flying forward, and instead of flying level the elevons cause a pitch change. That would seem to be bad. The nose up would giive you a rear thrust vector. I think that means the use of elevators/elevons in MR mode only makes sense for keeping the plane level. I still really like the way the stock Convergence flies with the motors tilting in the same direction for forward/back control, the opposite direction for yaw control. I know it’s probably all been discussed before. Anyone want to save me a lot of time before I write code for a concept that won’t work?
Does that pull request affect motor tilt or motor speed? The code appears to use fwd_thr, but actually changes the tilt skew angle. Was this the change from Greg Matek Convergence thread to all a pot to control the forward tilt?
On a tiltrotor, fwd_thr controls motor tilt, but on a quadplane it controls the forward motor’s throttle setting. I suppose you could also have a tiltrotor with non-tilting forward facing motors too.
Hi Pete, Can RealFlight map the physics for tiltrotor vectored thrust mappings (a Y3 with the front 2 used for fwd/back & yaw and the aft motor tilted for fwd/back)?
If so can it take those physics and put them out to the firmware?
I change Q_TILT_MASK but not diffrent on output motors. maybe i not understand, its for enable/disable motors or set servo tilt?
because i want enable/disable motors for FBWA mode Thrust.
I give 20 degrees Yaw but when relase stick must give 5 degrees reverse Yaw that go to origin, like this https://vimeo.com/333694226.
it will be the SERVOx_MIN or SERVOx_MAX param for your left and right tilt servo function outputs, whether its min or max depends on if its reversed or not.