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Andrew Tridgell 75470dc912 Filter: cope with non-uniform time steps in the DerivativeFilter
this helps with the barometer a lot, as the timing is quite variable
2012-07-05 13:00:47 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell f03ba86d9d SITL: add some minimal noise when motors are off
this actually improves the gyro calibration
2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 60caaa4b04 MAVLink: remove MAVLink 0.9 protocol support
this simplifies the code a lot. We're not going back to 1.0
2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 2cd6da2539 AHRS: only use GPS for yaw when compass is not being used
this avoids having two competing controllers
2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell adfa97b6f8 AHRS: enable barometer for vertical velocity
this re-enables the barometer for vertical velocity information
for drift correction, now that we have a better filter
on the climb rate
2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell f9fc7aafe7 AP_Baro: use DerivativeFilter in barometer climb rate 2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell f19e5a6273 Filter: added DerivativeFilter implementation
this adds a DerivativeFilter implementation of up to 10 points
2012-07-05 13:00:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 9f8703274c AP_Baro: show climb rate in baro test sketch 2012-07-05 13:00:45 +10:00
rmackay9 b5f47f5e63 AP_Motors: clarified some doxygen descriptions for TradHeli 2012-07-05 08:46:50 +09:00
Amilcar Lucas 0febf76d9d Document++ 2012-07-05 00:33:46 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas e9c72822dc Remove unused function 2012-07-05 00:33:10 +02:00
Andrew Tridgell c35a2e999b SITL: added SIM_GPS_DELAY parameter
this allows a delay to be added to the gps data to test the impact on
AHRS/DCM
2012-07-04 21:05:22 +10:00
rmackay9 faeda3713e AP_AHRS: removed DCM_test example sketch
No longer required because it doesn't compile and is redundant anyway because the AP_AHRS_DCM class is tested in the AHRS_Test example sketch.
2012-07-04 18:22:51 +09:00
Andrew Tridgell 3849ca8b5c AHRS: make DCM drift correction not rely on accurate yaw
this uses a new formulation of the GPS based drift correction from
Bill Premerlani that rotates the error vector to avoid relying on
accurate yaw. This means we should get accurate roll/pitch correction
even with lots of magnetometer interference

It also makes it possible to fly a multicopter with no compass. It can
even navigate and correct yaw (slowly!)
2012-07-04 17:00:40 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 1cd8c54f21 AP_Math: cope with co-located waypoints in location_passed_point() 2012-07-04 14:24:04 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 468dfe3faa AP_Math: the windows arduino build is missing acosf() 2012-07-04 14:14:58 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 0bdce404a5 AP_Math: add include of math.h
this is needed for location.cpp
2012-07-04 13:59:23 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell be9b9f3e67 DataFlash: fixed SITL build 2012-07-04 13:44:01 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell dd24330645 DataFlash: fallback to BlockErase if ChipErase fails
The errata on the APM2 dataflash chip says that ChipErase may not work
on some chips
2012-07-04 12:42:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell dd200cba31 Math: added location functions to math library
these do common calculations on struct Location
2012-07-04 12:42:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 1314e4f872 AHRS: make P gain on PI roll/pitch controller tunable
this is to make it easier for Craig and Alan to tune
2012-07-04 12:42:46 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 060cbe2030 AP_Mount: removed unused enum 2012-07-03 10:39:34 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 99b11e4f19 Mount: enable mount control via eeprom parameters
this enables MNT_* parameter control of the camera mount code. It also
fixes the conversion of calculated angles between degrees and
integers, and fixes stabilised mount control when yaw control is not
available.
2012-07-03 10:21:01 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 057eb5e6f6 Baro: average over all pressure/temperature samples on MS5611
this allows us to use the MS5611 barometer at its full 100Hz sample
rate (80Hz for pressure, 20Hz for temperature). The pressure and
temperature values are averaged between reads without adding any
latency. Previously the driver would throw away values between
readings

This also fixes a race condition in reading from the SPI bus that
could lead to bad values from the barometer
2012-07-02 13:44:53 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell f70cd71791 Baro: fixed build of MS5611 test code 2012-07-02 13:44:53 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 769011e947 AnalogSource: added some example code 2012-07-01 15:01:05 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 1fdcc3e8f0 SITL: added support for new analog source
removed analogRead() to prevent people using it
2012-07-01 15:01:05 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell c8befe4536 AnalogSource: make the Arduino AnalogSource interrupt driven
this fixes several problems with reading analog sources:

 - we were getting poor values because we didn't wait long enough for
   an analog source to settle

 - we wasted a lot of CPU cycles waiting for conversions

 - we were not taking averages over many samples, which we did with
   the old AP_ADC driver on the APM1
2012-07-01 15:01:05 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 136c03c3c0 AHRS: include the P terms in get_gyro()
this makes it more useful for navigation controllers
2012-06-29 21:54:09 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell acc6adf6e9 MPU6k: removed an unused variable 2012-06-29 21:54:09 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell ed691fc465 SITL: added SITL class for controlling simulation
this holds mavlink settable parameters for controlling sensor noise
levels
2012-06-29 15:10:51 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 16c55c64d4 AHRS: don't add the P terms in _omega
this can lead feedback via the _P_gain()
2012-06-29 15:10:51 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 37fc6c46b9 AHRS: disable barometer for vertical acceleration
this seems to have been the cause of the 'flips' seen by Marco and
others. Testing by Craig and Alan shows that the flips are gone when
the barometric acceleration is removed.

It looks like a 5 point average filter is not enough to keep the
vertical acceleteration noise low. With high noise in the z axes, the
x and y axes are scaled back when the ge vector is normalised.
2012-06-28 11:12:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 58c4d458dc AHRS: re-instate new DCM drift correction code
This reverts commit 078489638d47fbaffde7c51249e36b5a8fc4ef9d.
2012-06-28 11:09:22 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell fd241692d0 AHRS: revert to the old drift correction algorithm
we need to work out why Craigs quad flipped today before we enable
this new drift correction
2012-06-27 18:16:41 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell a6543f1e84 SITL: removed an unused variable 2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 5bccfbd94c Barometer: fixed airstart for APM
we need to re-load the ground pressure and temperature from eeprom on
and airstart
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 8e044a560b AHRS: include P term in omega
thanks to Jon for suggesting this
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 37e2f2ee2c AHRS: implement spin rate limits
this follows the method that Bill developed in his fastRotations
paper. We've demonstrated that this is indeed needed in APM, as we
were able to produce the 'dizzy' effects in both the ArduPlane and
ArduCopter simulator
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell e4a245179c AHRS: cope with copters with no compass
if a copter doesn't have a compass, we can't use the GPS for gyro
drift correction
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell f4faf941e2 GPS: test the more modern MTK16 2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 27761737ce SITL: fixed GPS heading in simulated UBlox
longitude scale does not apply to velocity->heading conversions
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell b811653800 SITL: changes UBlox simulation to 5Hz
this matches the real UBlox driver
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell e4d28b12e5 Compass: remove the need to call calculate() on the compass object
the new AHRS code doesn't use calculate() and the compass.heading
attribute. Instead it works on the raw magnetometer vector. This
change removes the internal calculate state from the compass object
and instead adds calculate_heading() for use by older code that
doesn't go via AHRS.

This significantly reduces the calculation involved in compass updates

The null offsets enable/disable code is also removed, as it is not
needed now that compass offsets are not linked to the AHRS state.
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 3a41ad8e7c AHRS: normalize the ge vector in drift correction, and use barometer
The normalisation ensures the error term scales uniformly with
different accelerations.

The barometer is used for vertical acceleration estimation
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell c387edd74c Baro: added get_altitude() and get_climb_rate() interfaces
this allows the barometer driver to calibrate and return altitude and
climb rate values. This will be used by the AHRS drift correction code
for vertical velocity

The climb rate uses a 5 point average filter
2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 06c8763881 Filter: added 5 point average float filter 2012-06-27 16:01:50 +10:00
Jonathan Challinger d230690b7b AHRS: brought DCM more inline with Bill's implementation
omega_I applied continuously. _ki larger. Stop integrating when _omega.length()>20

The key change was the scaling of ge to ensure the error is not
quadratic
2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell d4c8041c51 AHRS: first successful version of Bills new drift correction system
This makes 3 major changes:

 1) fixes the scaling of the yaw drift correction term to fix the time
 constant

 2) don't integrate the mag vector over multiple readings

 3) accumulate omega_I changes over 15 seconds before applying, to try
 to prevent omega_I picking up short term responses
2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 4d08f75292 AHRS: update for new _fly_forward flag 2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 0f5c22bd8e AHRS: implement Bills new drift correction algorithm
this is an initial implementation of this paper:

  http://gentlenav.googlecode.com/files/RollPitchDriftCompensation.pdf
2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 52d77407d4 AHRS: added GPS support to AHRS test 2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 37db5247cd GPS: added velocity and acceleration components
used by AHRS for acceleration correction
2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell fe865bc1dc Math: added comment 2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell c30b0d85a3 Math: moved more template functions to the .cpp files
save a bit more code space for larger functions
2012-06-27 16:01:49 +10:00
rmackay9 068fe64b9b ArduCopter HIL: changed calls to setHIL to send in time as a uint32_t (it was a float) 2012-06-26 22:50:17 +09:00
Jason Short 7b9583453b Added a crude Lead Filter. Needs some fine tuning, lag specification, scaling. Works great on 4hz GPS such as Mtek. 2012-06-21 11:14:20 -07:00
Amilcar Lucas 78ccb9d37f Add linebreaks to increase readability. 2012-06-21 00:36:10 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas b072a59843 Improve parameters descriptive text 2012-06-21 00:20:37 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas 594cedd324 Documentation improvements, no functional changes (only comments) 2012-06-17 22:53:54 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas f4e9587aca Move local temp variables to the stack it saves 1952 bytes
Add function comments
Only use _ on class member variables
Only point to a 3D GPS point if GPS has a fix
Implement MAV_MOUNT_MODE_MAVLINK_TARGETING
2012-06-17 22:25:51 +02:00
Wingspinner d09ac5899b Added support for channel curves (and expo) to AP_RC_Channel class. Also updated AP_RC_Channel example/test to demonstrate and test new functionality 2012-06-15 08:40:14 +00:00
Wingspinner b699c77323 Added support for channel curves (and expo) to AP_RC_Channel class. Also updated AP_RC_Channel example/test to demonstrate and test new functionality 2012-06-15 08:38:52 +00:00
Andrew Tridgell a851c53de4 GPS: need pgmspace.h for _write_progstr_block() 2012-06-15 16:27:11 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 70f18289c5 GPS: fixed auto-config of UBlox setup with no UBX messages
if a UBlox is configured for NMEA only, with no UBX messages at all
then it would never trigger the GPS_AUTO detection. This adds a UBX
config message to the init strings that enables the NAV_SOL message
2012-06-15 15:53:27 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 1fe297ab63 FastSerial: added tx_pending() method
this allows the caller to wait for the tx buffer to drain
2012-06-15 15:53:27 +10:00
Amilcar Lucas 1906e06b69 Added camera trigger functionality 2012-06-13 21:00:20 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas a32b7c200b Add "3 axis camera stabilization" and "point camera to 3D point" functionality
Patch by Gregory Fletcher and reviewed by me
2012-06-13 20:55:19 +02:00
Amilcar Lucas 5ffd489d87 Spellcheck 2012-06-13 20:44:35 +02:00
rmackay9 1e38b0d535 AP_GPS_NMEA: fix from Roberto Navoni to improve NMEA accuracy 2012-06-12 20:27:50 +09:00
Andrew Tridgell f9560ef093 GPS: use the new nav_setting in a couple of the sample sketches 2012-06-10 16:35:13 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 33a2ad7e07 GPS: add stub settings for nav_setting in the other GPS drivers
only Ublox supports nav_setting so far
2012-06-10 16:34:53 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 514be604a5 GPS: added auto-configuration of UBlox GPS
the Ublox will now auto-configure for 5Hz with just the messages we
want. It also supports setting the navigation engine type
2012-06-10 16:34:13 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 9c1ce9e1c5 FastSerial: avoid buffer re-allocation on re-open if possible
we commonly re-open serial ports a lot in the AUTO GPS driver
2012-06-09 07:43:22 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell cf4e56457b SITL: map() is a C++ function, so needs to be in C++ part of the header
this fixes the ACM build
2012-06-08 17:09:23 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell cbf477addd GPS: added debug code to the main GPS class 2012-06-08 16:42:03 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell a8bfc5d8e9 GPS: re-open the serial port with a 256 byte serial receive buffer
this ensures all GPS parsers have a 256 byte buffer available
2012-06-08 16:42:03 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 296e651b30 GPS: fixed the UBLOX parser to handle unknown messages
the parser was broken in several ways:

 1) when it received an unknown message it didn't update the ck_a and ck_b fields, so it
    thought the message had a bad checksum, which meant it got out of protocol sync

 2) the read() method would return false if the last message from the GPS was of an unknown type. 
    So we relied on the last msg always being one that we understand and want

 3) the parser considered any valid UBLOX message to be 'new data', whereas we only actually get 
    a new fix when we get box a new position and velned message

 4) the total message size per update is more than 128 bytes, but the serial port was opened 
    with only a 128 byte buffer, so we got corruption regularly
2012-06-08 16:42:02 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 9c2ba2e814 GPS: tidy up the auto gps test 2012-06-08 16:42:02 +10:00
Robert Lefebvre 238a1ced2c TradHeli adding ramp up time to Ch8 Throttle Pass-through. 2012-06-07 22:55:47 -04:00
Robert Lefebvre df17ff3bc1 AP_MotorsHeli Syntax correction. 2012-06-04 15:53:07 -04:00
Andrew Tridgell 25c17a5425 re-enable the AP_Mount build 2012-06-04 19:32:11 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 0f0cbce22f GPS: fixed a race condition in the ublox driver
the status update comes as a separate message from the lat/lon
2012-06-04 14:47:58 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 012fc35314 mavlink: fixed build with uart resend 2012-06-04 13:45:55 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell b6467cb1fa MAVLink: updates to mavlink headers to fix mavlink 1.0 issues 2012-06-04 13:34:07 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell d8919731ee Mavlink: fixed library build for MAVLink 1.0 2012-06-04 13:14:52 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell ec1abbf987 SITL: fixed SITL build with mavlink10 2012-06-04 13:14:52 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell 60f8d09506 mavlink10: fixed MAV_VAR -> MAVLINK_TYPE 2012-06-04 13:14:51 +10:00
Andrew Tridgell bccfb08c55 MAVLink: updated to latest upstream mavlink
this includes no significant changes
2012-06-04 13:14:51 +10:00
Jason Short 73e23aab2a GPS time set to unsigned int32 2012-06-03 11:13:50 -07:00
rmackay9 5c9dc00ae2 AP_Baro: fixed comment to clarify that every-other call updates temperature or pressure 2012-06-03 17:31:17 +09:00
rmackay9 dcdeae412e ArduCopter: Another attempt at fixing the lat/lon printing bug in which small negative lattitudes or longitudes were appearing as positives.
Fixed in both ArduCopter Log.pde and the GPS Auto test sketch
2012-06-03 16:58:19 +09:00
rmackay9 173ae33627 ArduCopter Desktop Build: added definition of "map" to wiring.h and included WMath.cpp to fix SITL build failures.
All real work on this issue done by Michael Oborne.
2012-06-02 17:46:00 +09:00
rmackay9 c82a403b88 AP_MotorsHeli: Added reference to "Arduino.h" to allow autotest builder to work.
Moved around initialisation of parmeters in AP_MotorHeli object to remove compiler warnings.
2012-06-02 16:13:23 +09:00
rmackay9 c3b1a79f6a RC_Channel library: change all "int" types to "int16_t".
Fixes SITL compile error due to type mismatch of set_pwm between .h and .cpp file (this only occurs because on the SITL, "int" is actually "int32_t"
2012-06-02 14:20:58 +09:00
rmackay9 d9f124afbb RC_Channel.pde: fixed compile errors so that it actually works! 2012-06-02 14:00:44 +09:00
rmackay9 2a216ce900 ArduCopter: fixed print_latlon bug in which it would print negative lat/lon numbers incorrectly (i.e. -1234567890 would be printed as -124.xxx). 2012-06-02 12:51:12 +09:00
Jason Short c2d14a5cad RC_Channel fix for throttle output.
throttle was outputting incorrectly and allowing the user to max out the throttle leaving nothing for attitude control
2012-05-31 14:59:03 -07:00
Jason Short 0adb5cb396 Issue 416: RC_Channel – Fix to make dead_zones still output 0 2012-05-31 12:05:47 -07:00
Jason Short 1c690b44de removed never used filter, and fixed a constrain that could make range calcs go bad 2012-05-31 11:45:07 -07:00