Mission planning CIRCLE mode

[arthurbenemann]

Add a mode where missions can be generated by drawing a circle.

If you set a Waypoint, you can define it as a POI. You could then have the option to set a radius and the app then defines however many waypoints depending on your radius. Would be superb for aerial photography and filming.

[arthurbenemann]

There is some work done at #213

[Tissy]

It looks like a lot of the potential work has been completed with the new waypoint draw feature.
Perhaps an option to tap the screen to enter polygon draw mode. Select the centre point, then drag out for radius and then a circle is drawn via waypoints?

[arthurbenemann]

What about selecting the circle button, then you try to draw the path of a
circle, after you finish a circle of waypoints pops up.

I can generate the circle by extracting the center point by making a mean
of all points in the path, and the radius by taking the mean of the
distance to this center point.

What do you think its better?
Em 09/08/2013 18:00, "Steven Tisseyre" [email protected] escreveu:

It looks like a lot of the potential work has been completed with the new
waypoint draw feature.
Perhaps an option to tap the screen to enter polygon draw mode. Select the
centre point, then drag out for radius and then a circle is drawn via
waypoints?

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[Tissy]

I wonder if there is the opportunity to have more than mode based on a circular flight path.

One button for POI (Point of Interest). This could allow you to select a single point on a map, once you tap the map, leaving your finger on the screen and "dragging away" could set the Radius. A perfect circle is then formed allowing the craft to fly around the circumference, but in this mode its 'nose in' to the POI. Great for POI filming. I believe this is how the normal CIRCLE mode is used in Mission Planner.

If there was a single tap in POI mode with no dragging out to set radius, the UAV could hold its position but rotate on its axis nose out for panoramic photography / filming.

Normal CIRCLE mode could be similar in setting a centre and radius, but the UAV flys the path of the circle with the nose following the circumference. Could even set a clockwise and anticlockwise attribute.

[arthurbenemann]

Can you do this in Mission Planner? If so can you give me some extra details, maybe an screenshot?

Now that I think about it your idea seams better. I'll take a look if I can draw a circle while you are drawing, that would help a lot.

[squilter]

done. #790