The command is sent by a dedicated mavlink command and forwarded to the fixed wing position controller.
The pattern is defined by the radius of the major axis, the radius of the minor axis and the orientation. The pattern is then defined by:
The upper part of the pattern consist of a clockwise circle with radius defined by the minor axis. The center of the circle is defined by the major axis minus the minor axis away from the pattern center.
The lower part of the pattern consist of a counter-clockwise circle with the same definitions as above.
In between, the circles are connected with straight lines in a cross configuration. The lines are always tangetial to the circles.
The orientation rotates the major axis around the NED down axis.
The loitering logic is defined inside its own class used by the fixed wing position control module. It defines which segment (one of the circles or lines) is active and uses the path controller (npfg or l1-control) to determine the desired roll angle.
A feedback mavlink message is send with the executed pattern parameters.
Camera controls should not happen through the flight controller, and
the control allocation has no means of controlling the camera zoom.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Do the same as DO_REPOSITION wit only the altitude field populated
and MAV_DO_REPOSITION_FLAGS set, which means:
- switch to Loiter mode if not already in it
- set the current altitude to what is specified in the altitdue field,
keep current altitude setpoint otherwise
- keep current position setpoint
- fall back to current estimated position in case a position setpoint
is not finite
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- update all msgs to be directly compatible with ROS2
- microdds_client improvements
- timesync
- reduced code size
- add to most default builds if we can afford it
- lots of other little changes
- purge fastrtps (I tried to save this multiple times, but kept hitting roadblocks)
Roman Bapst
Beat Küng
Konrad
Christian Rauch
Silvan Fuhrer
Daniel Agar