questions about the distance sensor

[wagh311]

I set up a distance sensor for the UAV to measure the distance between the UAV and the cylindrical obstacle, as shown below. But I found a problem: why did the green dot of the distance sensor not fall on the surface of the cylinder, but on a certain position in front of the cylinder? Is there something wrong with my cylinder? Or something else?

Any help?

settings:

{
  "SeeDocsAt": "/~https://github.com/Microsoft/AirSim/blob/master/docs/settings.md",
  "SettingsVersion": 1.2,
  "SimMode": "Multirotor",
  "Vehicles": {
    "UAV": {
      "VehicleType": "SimpleFlight",
      "X": 0,
      "Y": 0,
      "Z": 0,
      "Yaw": 0,
      "Sensors": {
        "Distance1": {
          "SensorType": 5,
          "Enabled": true,
          "DrawDebugPoints": true
        }
      }

    }
  }
}

[rajat2004]

Might be that the distance is greater than 40m which is the default max distance measured by distance sensor. Try getting the sensor data to verify this. You can set the MaxDistance field in the sensor params to change this

[wagh311]

I got the sensor data and confirmed that the distance was not beyond the maximum distance. Is something else wrong?

[ghost]

How did you get the sensor data?