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Hardware Integration Possibilities

ikondrasovas

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Hello,

I am new on this community. I live in Brazil and the reason for my contact is that I am planning my Master course project.
There is a research project building a hex copter and they invited me to join in the next project phase when they want to perform flight control using ARM micro controllers.

As I always want to test things before putting them to run, I think using a simulation system would be a great start.

I know Microsoft Flight Simulator since I was a kid, but now I discovered its extensibility potential, no this is very new to me. The Microsoft ESP project is also something very new.

I would like to know if it is possible to simulate my flight control system (running on my micro controller) using the Microsoft Flight Simulator as an input/output system.

As far as I read, I think the answer is yes, but I could not find any article or paper about this.

I would appreciate if you could give me some tips about this hardware integration possibilities.

Thank you,
 
I don't think your problem would be the interface. The problem is neither FSX or ESP simulates the flight model of a "hex copter". And I don't think you could build a hex copter object yourself for FSX, because the flight dynamics are very different than the normal helicopter model which expects a tail rotor and adjustable-pitch rotor blades.

And especially if you mean a very small hex copter like http://www.ardrone2.com , the aerodynamics are very different than a large helicopter that carries people. FSX just wasn't made to simulate something that small.
 
The only way to do such a thing is to take control of the velocities of the aircraft entirely via simconnect with your own physics engine.
 
Use Xplane for your project. it can be used to generate the model and simulate that aircraft no problem.

I am assuming that you have no built the simulator flight model yet? If you have, it will probably need to be either redone in xplane>planemaker or imported.

There is a project already in xplane that may be similar to yours...its called the verticopter. do a google search on it and you will find a lot of information about it.

There are also some very good utube videos on modelling for xplane... do a search on utube for the verticopter...this author is fantastic i found his video tutorials very helpful and extensive.
 
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