[Rock-dev] CopterCommand to base/types

[Jakob Schwendner]

On 05/29/2012 05:22 PM, Leif Christensen wrote:
> On 29.05.2012 17:10, Matthias Goldhoorn wrote:
>> I also need an ASV Motion Command like:
>>
>> double translation[2];
>> double heading;
>>
>> We should discuss about generalize "motion commands"
>>
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> On 29.05.2012 16:58, Jakob Schwendner wrote:
>>> On 05/29/2012 04:44 PM, Felix Rehrmann wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to add a type CopterCommand to base/types.
>>>> It is to give commands to flying machines and will have 3 axis commands
>>>> and one thrust command:
>>>>
>>>> struct CopterCommand {
>>>>         double axis_command[3];
>>>>         double thrust;
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> The value range would be from -1.0 to 1.0 for the axes and from 0.0 to
>>>> 1.0 for the thrust. Any opinions?
>>>>
>>> seems very system specific to me. Any reason this couldn't be defined in
>>> the module that requires it?
>>>
>>> Jakob
> I think I would not try to generalize motion commands at all, because of
> the wide range of inputs even for vehicles of similar classes. Think for
> example of all the different possible inputs for a quite narrow
> specified class of planar ackerman vehicles. Specifying such classes +
> deriving from them seems more work to me than directly define it in the
> vehicle specific modules.
+1 even the ones that are currently there could probably go into vehicle 
class specific modules.

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