[ODE] Auto Disable Improvement patch #1586738

[Jaroslav Sinecky]

You're right, it's not exactly the same but it's very similar in effect. 
You'll have to tune the velocity threshold and the number of steps used 
for calculating the average value for each particular case. Just 
consider our simple case of object thrown up in the air ... you have 
exactly the same problem as before, for certain number of steps the 
average velocity will be very close to zero, so for a number of steps 
relatively low in respect to your threshold value, the object will get 
autodisabled in the air.
Well ... thinking about it now, the average velocity solution seems 
actually much worse for this case because for any number of steps 
chosen, there will always be a moment when the average velocity will be 
zero even if the object is going down with some high instantaneous 
velocity again. So anyway you would have to employ it together with some 
current criteria of momentaneous velocity or step/time counting.
The same as any object undergoing some periodical movement will have 
average velocity zero all the time :-)

Jaroslav

Christoph Beyer wrote:
> *Jaroslav Sinecky wrote:*
>   
>> I would say that average velocity will not help, we actually already do that
>>     
>
> Maybe i don't understand you, but what we actually do is not
> calculating any average velocity.
> In the current ode, there is only the check if the current
> and only the current velocity is smaller than the threshold.
>
> calculating a average velocity of the last n steps,
> will give us a more real value for testing again a threshold.
>
> cheers
>
> christoph
>
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