Position hold via GPS

[qiqoo]

Hi everyone.

I did some research but couldn't find anything useful. My idea is to create a method to use GPS for a position hold, like flip a switch and the quad stays at the exact position you flipped the switch. Ive been thinking about that for quite a while and thought it could be very handy, like to take off/on goggles or just for a little pause or even a emergency brake (last could make the whole function a bit more difficult to realise). I found some info that another fork from cleanflight called INAV has a feature like that included. I myself know a few things about coding, but this task is propably a bit to high for my knowledge right now. I was wondering if anyone had the same thought or desire to have that feature or if anyone is currently working at something in this direction.

greetings from switzerland

[jsk2084]

ctzsnooze has been actively working on improving the GPS Rescue feature (and doing a great job, I might add!), and there may be a plan to do this also. I'd like to see it too. Being able to "pause" a flight via position hold would be valuable, and I don't think it will require a compass, either, as iNAV does.

[sugaarK]

There is also a lot of work to improve our sensor fusion code. This work and robust altitude code are the first steps. Pos hold is in the works but the other stuff needs to happen first

[lida2003]

Pos hold/way points which is much more useful for long voyage. If it can be put into RTH feature, then it's much more safe route. As Pos hold is a place, know for safe hovering.

[KarateBrot]

Yes, pos hold is coming. But we are going a step further. It will use a sensor fusion model to improve on the (civilian) GPS data, which doesn't provide a lot of precision itself.

[sugaarK]

@NeOSEC its coming but takes time.. remeber we care about flight performance first which can’t be said about the other projects and work entirely for free which also isn’t the case for the other projects. And by flight performance I mean giving you the pilot the best and most accurate flying system you can get

[butcher51111]

I really looking forward to this feature, betaflight is awesome, and this is the only reason that I have to use Inav which is.... not that good :D

[jan-br]

Is there already an ETA for this? :)

[sugaarK]

Will be next release so 6months to a year

[jan-br]

Thanks for the info, if there is a release candidate or snapshot version, feel free to hit me up. I'd gladly participate in Beta testing.