Development:AI Navigation

At present the navigation routines are quite limited.

The files involved are flybywire.* and navigation.*

Problems with the current routines are: They are unable to navigate(efficiently) in a ship that has 90% of it's thrust only available in the fowards direction.

A solution I am pursuing is a general system of implementing states...

moveTo(position, velocity, heading, angular_velocity, time) where a valid argument set would involve between one and all of the vector arguments, and optionally time.

At present, a valid trajectory for a ship is limited only by the absolute acceleration, that is, the acceleration in any direction. A fairly reasonable trajectory to interpolate between two points, each with an associated velocity can be calculated using a cubic bezier, where the length of the control points is relative to the velocity at the point.

cracken 23:39, 26 November 2006 (PST)