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Hi,
should the autopilot setting asolute should work?
I tried this here at home. When setting the pilot to absolute (and set the gains) I got no reaction of the actuator when moving the IMU.
Before I investigate this deeper I want to know if this function is implemented yet.
I use the latest tinypilotimage.
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I tested it last Sunday briefly and it did not work...
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unfortunately this pilot has not seen much testing so I don't expect it to work yet... This pilot requires rudder feedback as well
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Hi,
@Onno: @Sean: thanks for your replies.
Rudderfeedback was connected (and calibrated).
So I think it´s not a special problem of my setup.
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so far rudder feedback is always used for end limits to avoid stress on the system, and also to output the rudder angle to nmea and signalk.
the absolute pilot is a basic attempt at a PID filter which incorporates the rudder feedback. I suspect up to 10-15% improvement over the basic pilot so in many cases it may not be possible to notice the difference, but as you can see I implemented this some time ago and never managed to test it (too many other things to test) It could be especially useful if there is a lot of weather helm.. will be interesting to see.