no roll and pitch input means no change. Flicking will still update the throttle cruise value. Please check I have the signs correct!!!
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This makes it possible to move one resistor on the APM board and feed it PPM directly from a receiver emitting a PPM stream.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1498 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
- disable NMEA autodetection; false positives are still a risk
- trim down the console output to a minimum; we still need something to help users diagnose potential problems, but the old output was much too verbose
- rather than block forever, only do one autodetect pass for each ::read call. That's still too long (five seconds or so) but better than blocking forever.
- don't block forever if no GPS is attached.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1480 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
This can make re-opening a port faster (as the free/malloc pair can be avoided) and possibly more robust (in the case where e.g. the heap has been corrupted).
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Tweaked the nav pitch and roll commands to no longer use bearing error.
Angle boost is now a lot less thrust. I was getting too much added thrust when pitched at 45°
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Added an init string for SiRF receivers that will bring them back out of the binary mode configuration that AP_GPS_Auto sets them to.
Picked up the GPS logging format from the AP_GPS_Auto test.
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Major new features:
- No RAM buffer for the NMEA message being parsed; saves 120 bytes of RAM.
- More robust parser, a little less likely to be confused by bad messages.
- Added configuration strings for SiRF, ublox and MediaTek GPS in NMEA mode to select just the messages of interest.
Note that the issue that TinyGPS has with co-ordinates with "different" numbers of decimal digits is addressed in this code.
Size is comparable to the old parser.
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Otherwise, we can end up settling on NMEA as a mode just after switching a SiRF GPS to binary mode.
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This is a partial workaround for not being able to use PSTR at global scope, e.g. in an argument to a constructor; it makes the intent of the otherwise somewhat bulky declaration of the string more obvious.
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Add support for re-opening a port without changing the baudrate or buffer sizes. By passing zero for the parameters that aren't to be changed, code can reconfigure a port without needing to know how it was originally configured.
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Increase the no-data timeout to slightly more than a second, so that GPS' with a 1Hz update rate don't cause problems.
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Add a variant of AP_Float that stores the value as Q5.10 (16-bit fixed-point) to save EEPROM space.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1446 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
1. bad values from sonar were allowed to feed into altitude PID control leading to little hops
2. barometer altitude hold was disabled if sonar wasn't present
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