fw_att_controller: Forcing actuator scaling to at least minimum speed

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/modules/fw_att_control/fw_att_control_main.cpp b/src/modules/fw_att_control/fw_att_control_main.cpp
index 522e8c3e6..2f84dc963 100644
--- a/src/modules/fw_att_control/fw_att_control_main.cpp
+++ b/src/modules/fw_att_control/fw_att_control_main.cpp
@@ -669,8 +669,15 @@ FixedwingAttitudeControl::task_main()
 					airspeed = _airspeed.true_airspeed_m_s;
 				}
 
-				float airspeed_scaling = _parameters.airspeed_trim / airspeed;
-				//warnx("aspd scale: %6.2f act scale: %6.2f", airspeed_scaling, actuator_scaling);
+				/*
+				 * For scaling our actuators using anything less than the min (close to stall)
+				 * speed doesn't make any sense - its the strongest reasonable deflection we
+				 * want to do in flight and its the baseline a human pilot would choose.
+				 *
+				 * Forcing the scaling to this value allows reasonable handheld tests.
+				 */
+
+				float airspeed_scaling = _parameters.airspeed_trim / ((airspeed < _parameters.airspeed_min) ? _parameters.airspeed_min : airspeed);
 
 				float roll_sp = _parameters.rollsp_offset_rad;
 				float pitch_sp = _parameters.pitchsp_offset_rad;