I'll be honest, I did skip ahead through this video to the actual footage of the launch, so maybe you touched on this/ this is how you did it, but could you not use y=mx+c or a map() function for the angle at altitude? My launch-autopilot has a function I wrote which takes a final altitude, and final pitch angle, and calculates the pitch it should be at according to the altitude at the time. Is this not what you are trying to achieve here?
No, as the name implies I'm determining how fast the pitch should be changing. There's a slide that I go through in the presentation where it shows the calculations that are done. My previous video has a pitch vs altitude function, however it is a hard curve that is set regardless of the ship's thrust profile. The algorithm in this video takes into account the thrust profile, since it will base the pitch rate on how the ship is accelerating/traveling as well as where it is altitude wise.
Thanks Fez.
Best of luck getting into a SpaceX or another organization!
I just found this series. Im trying to adapt this for Simple Rockets 2. Oh thatll be fun.
Nice! A lot of this can definitely translate there besides syntax, let me know how it goes!
I'll be honest, I did skip ahead through this video to the actual footage of the launch, so maybe you touched on this/ this is how you did it, but could you not use y=mx+c or a map() function for the angle at altitude? My launch-autopilot has a function I wrote which takes a final altitude, and final pitch angle, and calculates the pitch it should be at according to the altitude at the time. Is this not what you are trying to achieve here?
No, as the name implies I'm determining how fast the pitch should be changing. There's a slide that I go through in the presentation where it shows the calculations that are done.
My previous video has a pitch vs altitude function, however it is a hard curve that is set regardless of the ship's thrust profile. The algorithm in this video takes into account the thrust profile, since it will base the pitch rate on how the ship is accelerating/traveling as well as where it is altitude wise.