-- Adds a smart failsafe that accounts for how far the plane is from home -- the average battery consumption, and the wind to decide when to failsafe -- -- CAUTION: This script only works for Plane -- store the batt info as { instance, filtered, capacity } local batt_info = { {0, 0, 0}, -- main battery -- add more batteries to monitor here } -- FIXME: check that the script is actually being run on ArduPilane local margin = 30 -- margin in seconds that should be added for the time to get home local filter = 0.9 -- filter gain local air_speed = 25.0 -- this should really be fetched from a parameter -- calculates the amount of time it will take for the vehicle to return home -- returns 0 if there is no position, wind or home available -- returns a negative number if it will take excessively long time, or is impossible -- otherwise returns the time in seconds to get back local function time_to_home() local home = ahrs:get_home() local position = ahrs:get_position() local wind = ahrs:wind_estimate() if home and position and wind then local bearing = position:get_bearing(home) local wind_bearing = math.atan(-wind:y(), -wind:x()) local awa = math.abs(wind_bearing - bearing) -- acute wind angle local ws = wind:length() -- wind speed (m/s) local wca = math.asin(ws * math.sin(awa) / air_speed) -- wind correction angle -- adjust the wind speed if it's pushing us the way we want to go if awa > math.rad(90) then ws = ws * -1 end -- compute the effective ground speed for getting home local effective_speed = air_speed - (math.cos(wca) * ws) -- clamp to prevent very large numbers if effective_speed < 1.0 then return -1 -- FIXME: this should really be infinity end return (position:get_distance(home) / effective_speed) end return 0 -- nothing useful available end local return_start -- this is an alternate update function that is simply used to track how long it will take to get home -- it's really only used for debugging how the prediction rules are working function track_return_time() local home = ahrs:get_home() local position = ahrs:get_position() if home and position then if position:get_distance(home) < 200 then gcs:send_text(0, "Failsafe: RTL took " .. tostring((millis() - return_start) / 1000) .. " seconds") return end end return track_return_time, 100 end -- the main update function that is used to decide when we should do a failsafe function update() for i = 1, #batt_info do local instance, filtered_amps, rated_capacity_mah = table.unpack(batt_info[i]) local amps = battery:current_amps(instance) local consumed_mah = battery:consumed_mah(instance) if amps and consumed_mah then -- update all the current consumption rates filtered_amps = (filtered_amps * filter) + (amps * (1.0 - filter)) batt_info[i][2] = filtered_amps local remaining_capacity = (rated_capacity_mah - consumed_mah) * 3.6 -- amp seconds local remaining_time = remaining_capacity / filtered_amps local return_time = time_to_home() if (return_time < 0) or (remaining_time < (return_time + margin)) then -- FIXME: We need more insight into what the vehicles already doing. IE don't trigger RTL if we are already landing gcs:send_text(0, string.format("Failsafe: Estimated %.0f seconds to home", return_time)) vehicle:set_mode(11) -- plane RTL FIXME: we need a set of enums defined for the vehicles -- swap to tracking the time rather then retrigger return_start = millis() return track_return_time, 100 end end end return update, 100 end -- validate that all the expected monitors have current monitoring capability, and fetch initial values for i = 1, #batt_info do -- check that the instance exsists local instance = batt_info[i][1] if instance > battery:num_instances() then error("Battery " .. instance .. " does not exsist") end -- checkthat we can actually read current from the instance if not battery:current_amps(instance) then error("Battery " .. instance .. " does not support current monitoring") end -- store the pack capacity for later use, it's assumed to never change mid flight local rated_cap = battery:pack_capacity_mah(instance) if rated_cap then batt_info[i][3] = rated_cap else error("Battery " .. instance .. " does not support current monitoring") end end return update, 100