Attention please: This page is outdated.
The MRS UAV System 1.5 is being released and this page needs updating. Please, keep in mind that the information on this page might not be valid.

Run Simulation Faster than Real-time

Simulation In The Loop (SITL) can be run faster or slower than real-time.

The speed factor is set using the environment variable PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR. For example, to run the simulation at 2 times the real-time speed put the following command to your session.yml into pre_window part, or into ~/.bashrc:

export PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR=2

To run at half real-time:

export PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR=0.5

Example of setting session.yml with PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR=2

name: simulation
root: ./
startup_window: status
pre_window: export UAV_NAME=uav1; export RUN_TYPE=simulation; export UAV_TYPE=t650; export WORLD_NAME=simulation; export PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR=2
windows:
...

For more detail description see px4 website.

Run Simulation SLOWER than Real-time

Running simulation slower using the PX4_SIM_SPEED_FACTOR variable causes problems when simulating multiple UAVs. To slow down the simulation instead change the max real-time update rate of Gazebo some time after the start of the simulation, i.e., include this in your session.yml file to slow down the simulation to 0.5 real-time factor:

  - gz_rate:
      layout: tiled
      panes:
        - waitForOdometry; sleep 5; gz physics -u 125

gz physics -u 250 corresponds to real-time factor 1.0, reduce the update rate accordingly to reach your desired real-time factor.