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Simple Compact Autopilot (for boats)

Of course bro! There's some better ones out there by Tajin and Tt that I would recommend

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1562641389

Can I put this in a creation of mine? I have already linked this creation and credited you with the autopilot

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Okay, I've been busy today, thanks for the inspiration Tajin! I've now developed a functioning autopilot system based on the compass method via the atan2 logic I made. Find it here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1442986350

You inspired me to make an atan2 function!
If you fancy it, it's here https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1442802901

Without a doubt, trig is the superior choice for accuracy and it wont suffer from PID bounce as much at far distances. The lack of atan2 was exactly my problem. Any system I made would get confused by the slip at pi radians (half turn) from the compass sensor.

Yeah it is. Especially before we had those trig functions.

I've actually had a bit of a discussion about that on discord lately. With some someone who claimed doing it with trigonometry would be so much better because of accuracy and whatnot.

I think it would take roughly 4 or 5 times as much space, with the only real benefit of beeing able to display your bearing on screen before turning to it.


Lets hope they add atan2, then it'll worth reconsidering that.

I'm going on for a PhD in Maths, I tried doing some shit with arctans but figured this is way simpler xD

Nah its fine. It's actually nice to see that someone has a similar way of thinking ;)