Realistic Quadcopter

[vague gorge]

now built with propellers instead of vector thrusters (btw i got a new computer)

[vocal bluff]

nice

did you use pids or did you use something else?

[vague gorge]

well... i now understand what pids are, but then i realized. i accidentally discovered pids while testing stuff like:

local thrust = (target_pos - ship_pos) * 2 - ship_vel * 4

so i basically did use pids

just without the integral

i instead replaced it with constants like mass, gravity, etc

here is the code if anyone wants to try

i used the cpml library for vector3s and quaternions

[agile saffron]

Nice

[vague gorge]

drone fpv camera

[vocal bluff]

lol

you re technically using using 2 pids without the I and D terms

[vague gorge]

well, the Derivative is just the velocity so...

[vocal bluff]

not really

it's the derivative of the error

not the derivative of the state

the D term i mean

[vague gorge]

now i just have to figure out how to configure most of my constants in my code

[vocal bluff]

you can make a genetic algorithm to do it for you

works pretty well

[vague gorge]

thats too much effort tho

and how am i going to make that in minecraft

[vocal bluff]

command computers

you define a cost function that just tests one thing you want to optimise and then you do that with some variations of your parameters and chose the best ones

and you do that until you're happy

so it could be for exemple: set some parameters for your drone, tp drone to some point, tell it to move to a different random point and at every frame and have the score be the sum of the errors squared, do the same configuration for a batch of drones with slightly different parameters and then choose the best one and repeat