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Re:Show HN: I added autopilot to the lunar lander game by ricardobeat on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:47AM (#35091622)
The target velocity is a factor of height, and the autopilot has “160” hardcoded as the ceiling, so going above that means it will never decelerate fast enough.

https://github.com/szhu/lunar-lander-autopilot/blob/master/a...

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Re:Show HN: I added autopilot to the lunar lander game by szhu on Friday March 10, 2023 @09:38AM (#35094784)
That's a ceiling for the speed the autopilot is okay with letting the lander descend. There is no ceiling to how much hard it will try to "apply the brakes".

I agree that the target velocity calculation is off though. I was excited that I came up with something reasonably theoretically correct for correcting rotation... and for figuring out when to fire the engines I just gave up and eyeballed it :)

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