[NSRCA-discussion] Could this allow automated scoring?

[Daniel Underkofler]

It's great to see technology like this approaching for at least partial
automated judging.

Seems that resolving the altitude component adequately is the largest
challenge.  To address this, I had envisioned a local set of 3 "beacons",
each emitting GPS-like signals that are received and processed by a
transponder in the model.  Yeah - expensive and even more out in the future.

In the short term, using high resolution and update GPS to resolve XY
location might be useful for partial judging.  Human judges would still be
responsible for the majority of the scoring, but a "correction factor" for
XY errors might be factored in.  For instance, it is terribly hard to judge
the geometry of the horizontal triangle in F15, but given good XY data, a
portion of the score could be addressed.  Distance and  parallelism to the
runway could also be determined and factored in (somehow).

Dan

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 9:33 PM, John Gayer via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

>  The judges are expected to consider the track of the plane in an earth
> coordinate system. For example the judges are supposed to consider that a
> 45 degree climb appears steeper at the end of the box than it does in the
> center. So the track should be analyzed by the judges in an earth
> coordinate system and the track of the model rather than attitude.
>
> The location of the pilot is actually irrelevant but the location of the
> box is clearly of critical importance. Knowing the actual location of the
> plane with a fairly quick update rate is critical. At 120 feet/sec(approx
> 80 mph), horizontal position is no problem. At this speed you need an
> update rate of about 80 milliseconds to get a data point about every 10
> feet. Not sure how good the GPS update rates are these days but this should
> be achievable. IF the altitude update rate is too slow then augment with an
> altimeter. Since we are downloading this data from the model, roll attitude
> could be transmitted as well for wings level.
>
> We would still need a zero judge for snaps, spins and stall turns and to
> establish when the pilot is lost in a maneuver. It might be necessary to
> have an "advance to the next maneuver" switch for that case.
>
> It would actually be a fascinating project to download accelerations,
> roll, yaw and pitch rates for analysis while observing snaps visually to
> see if standards could be established about what is a snap and what isn't.
>
> John
>
> On 5/8/2015 1:24 PM, Peter Vogel via NSRCA-discussion wrote:
>
> Not by itself.  Judging/Scoring is from the perspective of the pilot +
> judges, not from the perspective of the plane.  (As opposed to IAC, where
> it's from the perspective of the pilot in the plane).  For it to be done
> right you'd need to know the precise location of the plane and the precise
> location of the pilot, then calculate the geometry of the plane's movements
> relative to the perspective of the pilot's location.
>
>  The SoloShot 2 automatic cameraman does close to what we want in
> tracking the movement of the plane relative to a ground station, but from
> that you'd still need to calculate geometries, and wings level, etc.
>
>  Peter+
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Keith Hoard via NSRCA-discussion <
> nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:
>
>>  Cheap, Centimeter accuracy GPS <http://goo.gl/mZg6RG>.
>>
>>
>>
>> No more complaints about biased judging?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Keith Hoard
>>
>> klhoard at hotmail.com
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