/*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Module: FGLGear.cpp Author: Jon S. Berndt Norman H. Princen Date started: 11/18/99 Purpose: Encapsulates the landing gear elements Called by: FGAircraft ------------- Copyright (C) 1999 Jon S. Berndt (jsb@hal-pc.org) ------------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 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FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HISTORY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/18/99 JSB Created 01/30/01 NHP Extended gear model to properly simulate steering and braking %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% INCLUDES %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/ #include "FGLGear.h" #include namespace JSBSim { /*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% DEFINITIONS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/ /*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GLOBAL DATA %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/ static const char *IdSrc = "$Id$"; static const char *IdHdr = ID_LGEAR; /*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CLASS IMPLEMENTATION %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/ FGLGear::FGLGear(FGConfigFile* AC_cfg, FGFDMExec* fdmex) : Exec(fdmex) { string tmp; *AC_cfg >> tmp >> name >> vXYZ(1) >> vXYZ(2) >> vXYZ(3) >> kSpring >> bDamp>> dynamicFCoeff >> staticFCoeff >> rollingFCoeff >> sSteerType >> sBrakeGroup >> maxSteerAngle >> sRetractable; if (sBrakeGroup == "LEFT" ) eBrakeGrp = bgLeft; else if (sBrakeGroup == "RIGHT" ) eBrakeGrp = bgRight; else if (sBrakeGroup == "CENTER") eBrakeGrp = bgCenter; else if (sBrakeGroup == "NOSE" ) eBrakeGrp = bgNose; else if (sBrakeGroup == "TAIL" ) eBrakeGrp = bgTail; else if (sBrakeGroup == "NONE" ) eBrakeGrp = bgNone; else { cerr << "Improper braking group specification in config file: " << sBrakeGroup << " is undefined." << endl; } if (sSteerType == "STEERABLE") eSteerType = stSteer; else if (sSteerType == "FIXED" ) eSteerType = stFixed; else if (sSteerType == "CASTERED" ) eSteerType = stCaster; else { cerr << "Improper steering type specification in config file: " << sSteerType << " is undefined." << endl; } if ( sRetractable == "RETRACT" ) { isRetractable = true; } else { isRetractable = false; } GearUp = false; GearDown = true; // Add some AI here to determine if gear is located properly according to its // brake group type ?? State = Exec->GetState(); Aircraft = Exec->GetAircraft(); Position = Exec->GetPosition(); Rotation = Exec->GetRotation(); FCS = Exec->GetFCS(); MassBalance = Exec->GetMassBalance(); WOW = lastWOW = true; // should the value be initialized to true? ReportEnable = true; FirstContact = false; StartedGroundRun = false; TakeoffReported = LandingReported = false; LandingDistanceTraveled = TakeoffDistanceTraveled = TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft = 0.0; MaximumStrutForce = MaximumStrutTravel = 0.0; SinkRate = GroundSpeed = 0.0; vWhlBodyVec = (vXYZ - MassBalance->GetXYZcg()) / 12.0; vWhlBodyVec(eX) = -vWhlBodyVec(eX); vWhlBodyVec(eZ) = -vWhlBodyVec(eZ); vLocalGear = State->GetTb2l() * vWhlBodyVec; compressLength = 0.0; compressSpeed = 0.0; brakePct = 0.0; maxCompLen = 0.0; WheelSlip = lastWheelSlip = 0.0; compressLength = 0.0; compressSpeed = 0.0; brakePct = 0.0; maxCompLen = 0.0; Debug(0); } //%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FGLGear::FGLGear(const FGLGear& lgear) { State = lgear.State; Aircraft = lgear.Aircraft; Position = lgear.Position; Rotation = lgear.Rotation; Exec = lgear.Exec; FCS = lgear.FCS; MassBalance = lgear.MassBalance; vXYZ = lgear.vXYZ; vMoment = lgear.vMoment; vWhlBodyVec = lgear.vWhlBodyVec; vLocalGear = lgear.vLocalGear; WOW = lgear.WOW; lastWOW = lgear.lastWOW; ReportEnable = lgear.ReportEnable; FirstContact = lgear.FirstContact; StartedGroundRun = lgear.StartedGroundRun; LandingDistanceTraveled = lgear.LandingDistanceTraveled; TakeoffDistanceTraveled = lgear.TakeoffDistanceTraveled; TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft = lgear.TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft; MaximumStrutForce = lgear.MaximumStrutForce; MaximumStrutTravel = lgear.MaximumStrutTravel; kSpring = lgear.kSpring; bDamp = lgear.bDamp; compressLength = lgear.compressLength; compressSpeed = lgear.compressSpeed; staticFCoeff = lgear.staticFCoeff; dynamicFCoeff = lgear.dynamicFCoeff; rollingFCoeff = lgear.rollingFCoeff; brakePct = lgear.brakePct; maxCompLen = lgear.maxCompLen; SinkRate = lgear.SinkRate; GroundSpeed = lgear.GroundSpeed; LandingReported = lgear.LandingReported; TakeoffReported = lgear.TakeoffReported; name = lgear.name; sSteerType = lgear.sSteerType; sRetractable = lgear.sRetractable; eSteerType = lgear.eSteerType; sBrakeGroup = lgear.sBrakeGroup; eBrakeGrp = lgear.eBrakeGrp; maxSteerAngle = lgear.maxSteerAngle; isRetractable = lgear.isRetractable; GearUp = lgear.GearUp; GearDown = lgear.GearDown; WheelSlip = lgear.WheelSlip; lastWheelSlip = lgear.lastWheelSlip; } //%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FGLGear::~FGLGear() { Debug(1); } //%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% FGColumnVector3& FGLGear::Force(void) { double SteerGain = 0; double SinWheel, CosWheel; double deltaT; vForce.InitMatrix(); vMoment.InitMatrix(); if (isRetractable) { if (FCS->GetGearPos() < 0.01) { GearUp = true; GearDown = false; } else if (FCS->GetGearPos() > 0.99) { GearDown = true; GearUp = false; } else { GearUp = false; GearDown = false; } } else { GearUp = false; GearDown = true; } if (GearDown) { vWhlBodyVec = (vXYZ - MassBalance->GetXYZcg()) / 12.0; vWhlBodyVec(eX) = -vWhlBodyVec(eX); vWhlBodyVec(eZ) = -vWhlBodyVec(eZ); // vWhlBodyVec now stores the vector from the cg to this wheel vLocalGear = State->GetTb2l() * vWhlBodyVec; // vLocalGear now stores the vector from the cg to the wheel in local coords. compressLength = vLocalGear(eZ) - Position->GetDistanceAGL(); // The compression length is currently measured in the Z-axis, only, at this time. // It should be measured along the strut axis. If the local-frame gear position // "hangs down" below the CG greater than the altitude, then the compressLength // will be positive - i.e. the gear will have made contact. if (compressLength > 0.00) { WOW = true;// Weight-On-Wheels is true // The next equation should really use the vector to the contact patch of the tire // including the strut compression and not vWhlBodyVec. Will fix this later. // As it stands, now, the following equation takes the aircraft body-frame // rotational rate and calculates the cross-product with the vector from the CG // to the wheel, thus producing the instantaneous velocity vector of the tire // in Body coords. The frame is also converted to local coordinates. When the // aircraft local-frame velocity is added to this quantity, the total velocity of // the wheel in local frame is then known. Subsequently, the compression speed // (used for calculating damping force) is found by taking the Z-component of the // wheel velocity. vWhlVelVec = State->GetTb2l() * (Rotation->GetPQR() * vWhlBodyVec); vWhlVelVec += Position->GetVel(); compressSpeed = vWhlVelVec(eZ); // If this is the first time the wheel has made contact, remember some values // for later printout. if (!FirstContact) { FirstContact = true; SinkRate = compressSpeed; GroundSpeed = Position->GetVel().Magnitude(); TakeoffReported = false; } // If the takeoff run is starting, initialize. if ((Position->GetVel().Magnitude() > 0.1) && (FCS->GetBrake(bgLeft) == 0) && (FCS->GetBrake(bgRight) == 0) && (FCS->GetThrottlePos(0) == 1) && !StartedGroundRun) { TakeoffDistanceTraveled = 0; TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft = 0; StartedGroundRun = true; } // The following needs work regarding friction coefficients and braking and // steering The BrakeFCoeff formula assumes that an anti-skid system is used. // It also assumes that we won't be turning and braking at the same time. // Will fix this later. // [JSB] The braking force coefficients include normal rolling coefficient + // a percentage of the static friction coefficient based on braking applied. switch (eBrakeGrp) { case bgLeft: SteerGain = 0.10; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff*(1.0 - FCS->GetBrake(bgLeft)) + staticFCoeff*FCS->GetBrake(bgLeft); break; case bgRight: SteerGain = 0.10; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff*(1.0 - FCS->GetBrake(bgRight)) + staticFCoeff*FCS->GetBrake(bgRight); break; case bgCenter: SteerGain = 0.10; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff*(1.0 - FCS->GetBrake(bgCenter)) + staticFCoeff*FCS->GetBrake(bgCenter); break; case bgNose: SteerGain = -0.50; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff; break; case bgTail: SteerGain = -0.10; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff; break; case bgNone: SteerGain = 0.0; BrakeFCoeff = rollingFCoeff; break; default: cerr << "Improper brake group membership detected for this gear." << endl; break; } switch (eSteerType) { case stSteer: SteerAngle = SteerGain*FCS->GetDrCmd()*0.349; // 20 deg break; case stFixed: SteerAngle = 0.0; break; case stCaster: // Note to Jon: This is not correct for castering gear. I'll fix it later. SteerAngle = 0.0; break; default: cerr << "Improper steering type membership detected for this gear." << endl; break; } // Transform the wheel velocities from the local axis system to the wheel axis system. // For now, steering angle is assumed to happen in the Local Z axis, // not the strut axis as it should be. Will fix this later. SinWheel = sin(Rotation->Getpsi() + SteerAngle); CosWheel = cos(Rotation->Getpsi() + SteerAngle); RollingWhlVel = vWhlVelVec(eX)*CosWheel + vWhlVelVec(eY)*SinWheel; SideWhlVel = vWhlVelVec(eY)*CosWheel - vWhlVelVec(eX)*SinWheel; // Calculate tire slip angle. if (RollingWhlVel == 0.0 && SideWhlVel == 0.0) { WheelSlip = 0.0; } else if (fabs(RollingWhlVel) < 0.10) { WheelSlip = 0.05*radtodeg*atan2(SideWhlVel, RollingWhlVel) + 0.95*WheelSlip; } else { WheelSlip = radtodeg*atan2(SideWhlVel, RollingWhlVel); } if ((WheelSlip < 0.0 && lastWheelSlip > 0.0) || (WheelSlip > 0.0 && lastWheelSlip < 0.0)) { WheelSlip = 0.0; } lastWheelSlip = WheelSlip; // Compute the sideforce coefficients using similar assumptions to LaRCSim for now. // Allow a maximum of 10 degrees tire slip angle before wheel slides. At that point, // transition from static to dynamic friction. There are more complicated formulations // of this that avoid the discrete jump. Will fix this later. if (fabs(WheelSlip) <= 20.0) { FCoeff = staticFCoeff*WheelSlip/20.0; } else if (fabs(WheelSlip) <= 40.0) { // FCoeff = dynamicFCoeff*fabs(WheelSlip)/WheelSlip; FCoeff = (dynamicFCoeff*(fabs(WheelSlip) - 20.0)/20.0 + staticFCoeff*(40.0 - fabs(WheelSlip))/20.0)*fabs(WheelSlip)/WheelSlip; } else { FCoeff = dynamicFCoeff*fabs(WheelSlip)/WheelSlip; } // Compute the vertical force on the wheel using square-law damping (per comment // in paper AIAA-2000-4303 - see header prologue comments). We might consider // allowing for both square and linear damping force calculation. Also need to // possibly give a "rebound damping factor" that differs from the compression // case. vLocalForce(eZ) = min(-compressLength * kSpring - compressSpeed * bDamp, (double)0.0); MaximumStrutForce = max(MaximumStrutForce, fabs(vLocalForce(eZ))); MaximumStrutTravel = max(MaximumStrutTravel, fabs(compressLength)); // Compute the forces in the wheel ground plane. RollingForce = 0; if (fabs(RollingWhlVel) > 1E-3) { RollingForce = vLocalForce(eZ) * BrakeFCoeff * fabs(RollingWhlVel)/RollingWhlVel; } SideForce = vLocalForce(eZ) * FCoeff; // Transform these forces back to the local reference frame. vLocalForce(eX) = RollingForce*CosWheel - SideForce*SinWheel; vLocalForce(eY) = SideForce*CosWheel + RollingForce*SinWheel; // Note to Jon: At this point the forces will be too big when the airplane is // stopped or rolling to a stop. We need to make sure that the gear forces just // balance out the non-gear forces when the airplane is stopped. That way the // airplane won't start to accelerate until the non-gear/ forces are larger than // the gear forces. I think that the proper fix should go into FGAircraft::FMGear. // This routine would only compute the local strut forces and return them to // FMGear. All of the gear forces would get adjusted in FMGear using the total // non-gear forces. Then the gear moments would be calculated. If strange things // start happening to the airplane during testing as it rolls to a stop, then we // need to implement this change. I ran out of time to do it now but have the // equations. // Transform the forces back to the body frame and compute the moment. vForce = State->GetTl2b() * vLocalForce; vMoment = vWhlBodyVec * vForce; } else { WOW = false; if (Position->GetDistanceAGL() > 200.0) { FirstContact = false; StartedGroundRun = false; LandingReported = false; LandingDistanceTraveled = 0.0; MaximumStrutForce = MaximumStrutTravel = 0.0; } compressLength = 0.0; // reset compressLength to zero for data output validity } deltaT = State->Getdt()*Aircraft->GetRate(); if (FirstContact) LandingDistanceTraveled += Position->GetVground()*deltaT; if (StartedGroundRun) { TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft += Position->GetVground()*deltaT; if (WOW) TakeoffDistanceTraveled += Position->GetVground()*deltaT; } if (ReportEnable && Position->GetVground() <= 0.05 && !LandingReported) { if (debug_lvl > 0) Report(erLand); } if (ReportEnable && !TakeoffReported && (vLocalGear(eZ) - Position->GetDistanceAGL()) < -50.0) { if (debug_lvl > 0) Report(erTakeoff); } if (lastWOW != WOW) { PutMessage("GEAR_CONTACT: " + name, WOW); } lastWOW = WOW; // Crash detection logic (really out-of-bounds detection) if (compressLength > 500.0 || vForce.Magnitude() > 100000000.0 || vMoment.Magnitude() > 5000000000.0 || SinkRate > 1.4666*30) { PutMessage("Crash Detected: Simulation FREEZE."); Exec->Freeze(); } } return vForce; } //%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% void FGLGear::Report(ReportType repType) { switch(repType) { case erLand: cout << endl << "Touchdown report for " << name << endl; cout << " Sink rate at contact: " << SinkRate << " fps, " << SinkRate*0.3408 << " mps" << endl; cout << " Contact ground speed: " << GroundSpeed*.5925 << " knots, " << GroundSpeed*0.3408 << " mps" << endl; cout << " Maximum contact force: " << MaximumStrutForce << " lbs, " << MaximumStrutForce*4.448 << " Newtons" << endl; cout << " Maximum strut travel: " << MaximumStrutTravel*12.0 << " inches, " << MaximumStrutTravel*30.48 << " cm" << endl; cout << " Distance traveled: " << LandingDistanceTraveled << " ft, " << LandingDistanceTraveled*0.3408 << " meters" << endl; LandingReported = true; break; case erTakeoff: cout << endl << "Takeoff report for " << name << endl; cout << " Distance traveled: " << TakeoffDistanceTraveled << " ft, " << TakeoffDistanceTraveled*0.3408 << " meters" << endl; cout << " Distance traveled (over 50'): " << TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft << " ft, " << TakeoffDistanceTraveled50ft*0.3408 << " meters" << endl; TakeoffReported = true; break; } } //%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% // The bitmasked value choices are as follows: // unset: In this case (the default) JSBSim would only print // out the normally expected messages, essentially echoing // the config files as they are read. If the environment // variable is not set, debug_lvl is set to 1 internally // 0: This requests JSBSim not to output any messages // whatsoever. // 1: This value explicity requests the normal JSBSim // startup messages // 2: This value asks for a message to be printed out when // a class is instantiated // 4: When this value is set, a message is displayed when a // FGModel object executes its Run() method // 8: When this value is set, various runtime state variables // are printed out periodically // 16: When set various parameters are sanity checked and // a message is printed out when they go out of bounds void FGLGear::Debug(int from) { if (debug_lvl <= 0) return; if (debug_lvl & 1) { // Standard console startup message output if (from == 0) { // Constructor cout << " Name: " << name << endl; cout << " Location: " << vXYZ << endl; cout << " Spring Constant: " << kSpring << endl; cout << " Damping Constant: " << bDamp << endl; cout << " Dynamic Friction: " << dynamicFCoeff << endl; cout << " Static Friction: " << staticFCoeff << endl; cout << " Rolling Friction: " << rollingFCoeff << endl; cout << " Steering Type: " << sSteerType << endl; cout << " Grouping: " << sBrakeGroup << endl; cout << " Max Steer Angle: " << maxSteerAngle << endl; cout << " Retractable: " << sRetractable << endl; } } if (debug_lvl & 2 ) { // Instantiation/Destruction notification if (from == 0) cout << "Instantiated: FGLGear" << endl; if (from == 1) cout << "Destroyed: FGLGear" << endl; } if (debug_lvl & 4 ) { // Run() method entry print for FGModel-derived objects } if (debug_lvl & 8 ) { // Runtime state variables } if (debug_lvl & 16) { // Sanity checking } if (debug_lvl & 64) { if (from == 0) { // Constructor cout << IdSrc << endl; cout << IdHdr << endl; } } } } // namespace JSBSim