Use pthread's barrier so we don't keep waking up threads with possibly
higher priority during initialization phase.
This also synchronizes all of them to a single point. With the previous
approach it was possible (but unlikely) that a thread hadn't reach the
synchronization point when main thread signalize "system initialized".
5hz update warnings are only valid if you have a fix, without a fix it adds load
to the GPS without any benefit. Our _5hz time messages are depenend upon GPS fix
time which isn't available yet
// @Description: When zero, the flare sink rate (TECS_LAND_SINK) is a fixed sink demand. With this enabled the flare sinkrate will increase/decrease the flare sink demand as you get further beyond the LAND waypoint. Has no effect before the waypoint. This value is added to TECS_LAND_SINK proportional to distance traveled after wp. With an increasing sink rate you can still land in a given distance if you're traveling too fast and cruise passed the land point. A positive value will force the plane to land sooner proportional to distance passed land point. A negative number will tell the plane to slowly climb allowing for a pitched-up stall landing. Recommend 0.2 as initial value.
Let the warning flag be added by the build system and not when/if the
header AP_Common.h is included. Both waf and make were already updated
to contain these warnings. Besides being in the wrong place, with
clang++ we actually can't add "-Wno-" definitions in build system
because we enable all of the in the header with -Wall.
The ublox driver will now continuosly poll for the settings from the GPS and correct any that are found to be in correct.
This status is then reported to the arming library as an additional arming check, allowing the user to be sure that the
gps is correctly configured before using it. If a user has a GPS2 configured that is not present they will fail the arming
checks until after they have disabled the second GPS.
2 new parameters were introduced as well:
-GPS_AUTO_CONFIG: Will not request any configuration packets to attempt to change them. (If the packet is recieved then
a update will be sent to it, but in testing this scenario never occured. This is set to 1 or 0 to change the setting.
(Defaults to 1 enabling auto config)
-GPS_GNSS_MODE2: Behaves the same way as GPS_GNSS_MODE but only applies to the second GPS.
GPS drivers are now allowed 2 seconds of non responsiveness before being unloaded
when a NMEA sentence is corrupted we should discard it
completely. This change prevents us considering a set of sentences
that includes corrupted sentences from being seen as new data
Reverse thrust for controlled landings, even with much steeper approach slopes. This is achieved by allowing throttle demand to go negative to maintain a target airspeed. A Pre-Flare stage was added, triggered by an altitude, to allow for a slower airspeed just before land. That lower airspeed can be near stall.
new params TECS_APPR_SMAX - sink rate max during approach
This is the only driver doing this, using the system_initializing() from
scheduler to log selectively. Remove the check together with removal of
unused wrapper methods to semaphore.
Due to the way the headers are organized changing a single change in
an AP_Notify driver would trigger a rebuild for most of the files in
the project. Time could be saved by using ccache (since most of the
things didn't change) but we can do better, i.e. re-organize the headers
so we don't have to re-build everything.
Due to the way the headers are organized changing a single change in an
inertial sensor driver would trigger a rebuild for most of the files in
the project. Time could be saved by using ccache (since most of the
things didn't change) but we can do better, i.e. re-organize the headers
so we don't have to re-build everything.
With this patch only AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor.h is exposed to
most users. There are some corner cases to integrate with some example
code, but most of the places now depend only on this header and this
header doesn't depend on the specific backends.
Now changing a single header, e.g. AP_InertialSensor_L3G4200D.h triggers
a rebuild only of these files:
$ waf copter
'copter' finished successfully (0.000s)
Waf: Entering directory `/home/lucas/p/dronecode/ardupilot/build/minlure'
[ 80/370] Compiling libraries/AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor.cpp
[ 84/370] Compiling libraries/AP_InertialSensor/AP_InertialSensor_L3G4200D.cpp
[310/370] Linking build/minlure/ArduCopter/libArduCopter_libs.a
[370/370] Linking build/minlure/bin/arducopter
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/lucas/p/dronecode/ardupilot/build/minlure'
This is not used by any board and has a lot of commented out code. For
example, the compass is not enabled. The comment in the beginning of
the driver says it should serve as an example, but we should rather use
a working driver as an example. If this was at least a bit simpler and
that worked in the past we could refactor it to the new I2CDevice API.
This is not the case.
A string name allows to more easily expand the table: the board is
responsible for the name and doesn't have to declare it as a enum or
define. It's also easier to add 2 sensors of the same type.
This adds .data section loading to the HC-SR04 range finder driver used by
BBBMINI. The firmware is running inside a PRU. It is necessary to develop more
complex driver software inside the PRU.
This reverts support for RCInput via PWM. This is causing trouble in
some RPI-based boards, receiving a SIGSEGV. Let's revert it for now and
retry this later.
This reverts commit 5629f38b2c.
This reverts commit 51fd0b3d55.
This reverts commit 79d56073f7.
../../libraries/AP_HAL_Linux/RCInput_RPI.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void Linux::RCInput_RPI::_timer_tick()’:
../../libraries/AP_HAL_Linux/RCInput_RPI.cpp:489:127: warning: ‘x’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
counter = circle_buffer->bytes_available(curr_pointer, circle_buffer->get_offset(circle_buffer->_virt_pages, (uintptr_t)x));
^
This shrink must be used when the output camera sizes doesn't fit
the expected output.
We don't need to crop it even when the camera sizes aren't squared since
the shrink_8bpp() function shrinks a selected area.
This function shrinks a selected area on a 8bpp image.
The focus in this function was the performance, so this may not be the
clearer or the most understandable way to write it. The performance
was measured using GoogleBenchmark[1].
[1] - https://github.com/google/benchmark.git
Support for perf api using lttng.
Some additional build tricks needed for bebop because lttng uses dl_open
which is not compatible with a static link on a different libc as used
on the bebop
Sensor bias corrections were being applied to the incoming IMU data using the wrong delta time.
This was what was driving the different tuning between plane and copter for gyro bias process noise so the same gyro bias process noise default tuning value can now be used for all platform types.
Sensor bias corrections were being applied a a second time to the output observer inertial data.
Eliminate the use of horizontal position states during non-aiding operation to make it easier to tune.
Explicitly set the horizontal position associated Kalman gains to zero and the coresponding covariance entries to zero after avery fusion operation.
Make the horizontal velocity observation noise used during non-aiding operation adjustable.
Use a fixed value of velocity noise during initial alignment so that the flight peformance can be tuned without affecting the initial alignment.
We are not doing any dma here, it's just an SPI transaction. Name them
only rx/tx (although io_packet_tx/io_packet_rx could be another option).
This also zero-initialize the struct to keep valgrind happy about not
calling ioctl() with uninitialized variables.
This disables FRAM usage in PXF and erleboard. The reason is it's
failing and not being used. Right now we get this on startup:
root@beaglebone:~# ./ArduCopter.elf
FRAM: Online
Storage: FRAM is getting reset to default values
Failed to read FRAM
Testing with valgrind also reveals some invalid memory reads. Let's
disable it for now to be common with other boards.
This commit adds support for OpticalFlow to MinnowBoardMax trying to
leave the OpticalFlow implementation as generic as it already is.
We had to add some format conversion and software crop to the cameras that
do not have this features.
Most cameras do not support NV12 or GREY formats, we are adding in this commit
a conversion from YUYV format, that seems pretty common in cameras, to GREY
format (since we do not use Cb and Cr data on OpticalFlow).
Also we are adding a software crop for 8bpp images, such as GREY format. For
the same reason, most cameras do not have support for overlaying (crop, resize
and so on).
These functions are being added in order to be used in the next commits,
where we will add support for OpticalFlow on MinnowBoardMax.
This reverts commit 8cca0beba9.
The PWM input using the RPI DMA is causing trouble with RPI boards using
PPMSUM. Let's revert it until the solution is found. We still leave the
ifdef in RCInput for BH hat.
The non-GPS mode was not being activated for small height gains - eg indoor flight.
The incorrect innovation consistency check was being applied to the synthetic velocity observations.
