Re: [Paparazzi-devel] I/O of Paparazzi

[Gareth Roberts]

Hi Lucas,

There is a developer guide here:
http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Developer_Guide

The coupling between JSBSim and Paparazzi has already been written  
allowing full FDM simulations to be carried out from within the paparazzi  
groundstation.  All that is required is to write a JSBSim model file  
describing your airframe.

http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Simulation#JSBSim (this documentation is  
currently slightly outdated).

If you are sure you want to run the actual hardware in the loop, paparazzi  
already has a HITL simulator:

http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/HITL

although this uses paparazzi's standard FDM model, rather than JSBSim.

Perhaps modifying paparazzi to use JSBSim from within the HITL environment  
would be the best way to go and would also be contributing back to the  
project.

If you are still sure about doing this completely externally, you'll need  
to simulate the UBlox GPS protocol, the IR sensor voltage for the ADC and  
the RC PPM signal - none of these are paparazzi protocols per say.

You can then use the paparazzi data link & server to parse the messages on  
the ground station, and get the information from the paparazzi data server  
using the Ivy software bus.

I'm not sure what you mean by research flight simulator, but if you are  
referring to the large moving platform type thingys all universities have  
I'm unsure why you'd want to connect paparazzi to this?

Cheers,
--G



On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:07:07 -0000, Lucas Marchesini  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am a research associate at the University of Zurich, institute of  
> aeronautics and transport system, and I am working with the guys of the  
> UMARS project.
> On the UMARS there is the Paparazzi autopilot.
> On my side, I am the project manager of the research flight simulator of  
> the University.
> Two students are starting now their bachelor thesis on making the flight  
> dynamics model of the UMARS.
> We would like coupling the simulator with the Paparazzi in a closed loop.
>
> To do this we need to know the I/O data and format of the paparazzi:  
> which parameters are needed, which ones are output and what is their  
> format.
>
> Please, could you direct me to where to find these information ?
>
> Thanks a lot and best regards
>
>                  - Lucas Marchesini -
>
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