For SITL it's important that the GCS receives the first events messages
that reset the sequence number, in case the user does not press 'Disconnect'
when restarting SITL.
- new modules/simulation directory to collect all simulators and related modules
- new Tools/simulation directory to collect and organize scattered simulation submodules, scripts, etc
- simulation module renamed to simulator_mavlink
- sih renamed to simulator_sih (not a great name, but I wanted to be clear it was a simulator)
- ignition_simulator renamed to simulator_ignition_bridge
- large sitl_target.cmake split by simulation option and in some cases pushed to appropriate modules
- sitl targets broken down to what's actually available (eg jmavsim only has 1 model and 1 world)
- new Gazebo consistently referred to as Ignition for now (probably the least confusing thing until we fully drop Gazebo classic support someday)
Also remove the legacy "range aid" than can be achieved by setting the
height reference to range finder and the range finder control parameter
to "conditional".
Conditional range aiding cal also be set when the height reference isn't
the range finder. This prevents the ratchetting effect due to switching
between references.
- much simpler direct interface using Ignition Transport
- in tree models and worlds
- control allocation output configuration, no more magic actuator mapping to mavlink and back
- currently requires no custom Gazebo plugins (keeping things as lightweight and simple as possible)
Co-authored-by: Jaeyoung-Lim <jalim@ethz.ch>
This is the control surface type for airframes that have only a
single aileron servo or have the ailerons on a single output channel.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
For most VTOLs the param defaults for the agressiveness of the MC attitude controller
are too high, as VTOLs usually have high intertia and lot af drag due to wings and
can thus not rotate as fast as MCs.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
I think most vehicle can safely decend with at least 1.5m/s, and having this
value too low makes Descents/Landings/RTLs unnecessary long.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
The VTOL default was set to 1, while the param default is 1.5.
I don't see why it shuold be a different default for VTOLs and thus remove it.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- landing slope/curve library removed
- flare curve removed (the position setpoints will not be tracked during a flare, and were being ignored by open-loop maneuvers anyway)
- flare curve replaced by simply commanding a constant glide slope to the ground from the approach entrance, and commanding a sink rate once below flaring alt
- flare is now time-to-touchdown -based to account for differing descent rates (e.g. due to wind)
- flare pitch limits and height rate commands are ramped in from the previous iteration's values at flare onset to avoid jumpy commands
- TECS controls all aspects of the auto landing airspeed and altitude/height rate, and is only constrained by pitch and throttle limits (lessening unintuitive open loop manuever overrides)
- throttle is killed on flare
- flare is the singular point of no return during landing
- lateral manual nudging of the touchdown point is configurable via parameter, allowing the operator to nudge (via remote) either the touchdown point itself (adjusting approach vector) or shifting the entire approach path to the left or right. this helps when GCS map or GNSS uncertainties set the aircraft on a slightly offset approach"
Fixes the error:
Aborting due to missing @type tag in file: 'build/px4_fmu-v5_test/etc/init.d/airframes/11001_hexa_cox'
This can happen due to a change to e.g. board_serial_ports, which changes
the CLI command and triggers a re-execution of the airframe processing.
- 4096 of 3 hex digits each for rev and ver is enough.
#defines used in SPI versions do not be long format, use use the macro
- Board provides a prefix and the formatting is sized and built in
- No need for funky board_get_base_eeprom_mtd_manifest interface
Original mft is used where the abstraction is done with the MFT interface
Co-authored-by: David Sidrane <David.Sidrane@Nscdg.com>
- all sources of optical flow publish sensor_optical_flow
- sensor_optical_flow is aggregated by the sensors module, aligned with integrated gyro, and published as vehicle_optical_flow
Co-authored-by: alexklimaj <alex@arkelectron.com>
rename follow_me_status to follow_target_status
enable follow_target_estimator on skynode
implement the responsiveness parameter:
The responsiveness parameter should behave similarly to the previous
follow-me implementation in navigator. The difference here is that
there are now two separate gains for position and velocity fusion.
The previous implemenation in navigator had no velocity fusion.
Allow follow-me to be flown without RC
SITL tests for follow-me flight task
This includes:
- Testing the setting for the follow-me angle
- Testing that streaming position only or position
and velocity measurements both work
- Testing that RC override works
Most of these tests are done with a simulated model
of a point object that moves on a straight line. So
nothing too spectacular. But it makes the test checks
much easier.
Since the estimator for the target actually checks new
measurements and compares them to old ones, I also added
random gausian noise to the measurements with a fixed seed
for deterministic randomness. So repeated runs produce
exactly the same results over and over.
Half of the angles are still missing in MAVSDK. Need to create
an upstream PR to add center left/right and rear left/right options.
These and the corresponding SITL tests need to be implemented
later.
sitl: Increase position tolerance during follow-me
Astro seems to barely exceed the current tolerance (4.3 !< 4.0)
causing CI to fail. The point of the CI test is not to check
the accuracy of the flight behaviour, but only the fact that the
drone is doing the expected thing. So the exact value of this
tolerance is not really important.
follow-me: gimbal control in follow-me
follow-me: create sub-routines in flight task class
follow-me: use ground-dist for emergency ascent
dist_bottom is only defined when a ground facing distance sensor exist.
It's therefore better to use dist_ground instead, which has the distance
to the home altitude if no distance sensor is available.
As a consequence it will only be possible to use follow-me in a valley
when the drone has a distance sensor.
follow-me: point gimbal to the ground in 2D mode
follow-me: another fuzzy msg handling for the estimator
follow-me: bugfix in acceleration saturation limit
follow-me: parameter for filter delay compensation
mantis: dont use flow for terrain estimation
follow-me: default responsiveness 0.5 -> 0.1
0.5 is way too jerky in real and simulated tests.
flight_task: clarify comments for bottom distance
follow-me: minor comment improvement
follow-me: [debug] log emergency_ascent
follow-me: [debug] log gimbal pitch
follow-me: [debug] status values for follow-me estimator
follow-me: setting for gimbal tracking mode
follow-me: release gimbal control at destruction
mavsdk: cosmetics 💄
* sih: Move sih out of work queue
This reverts commit bb7dd0cf00.
* sih-sim: Enable sih in sitl, together with lockstep
* sih-sim: new files for sih: quadx and airplane
* sih: Added tailsitter for sih-sitl simulation
* sitl_target: Added seperate target loop for sih
* jmavsim_run: Allow jmavsim to run in UDP mode
* lockstep: Post semaphore on last lockstep component removed
* sih-sim: Added display for effectively achieved speed
* sih: increase stack size
* sih-sim: Improved sleep time computation, fixes bug of running too fast
* sitl_target: place omnicopter in alphabethic order
Co-authored-by: romain-chiap <romain.chiap@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthias Grob <maetugr@gmail.com>
Without this, uavcan creates MixingOutput classes which then create
empty actuator_outputs publications. This then prevents the motor
output in HITL to be forwarded to the simulator via mavlink.
- remove separate flaperon controls input to mixer instead enable spoiler support
- add slew rate limiting on both flap and spoiler controls
- add spoiler configuration for Landing and Descend
- add trimming from spoiler deflection
- FW Attitude control: remove FW_FLAPS_SCL param -->
The flap settings for takeoff and landing are now specified relative to full range.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
[4] is reserved for Flaps, so also having the tilt on it was preventing us from
using flaps on tiltrotors, and other ripple effects.
By using [8] the tilt is separated from all other channels - it requires to increase the size of
actuator_controls by 1 to 9.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- set MAV_TYPE as a parameter default per vehicle type, or airframe if necessary
- cleanup MAV_TYPE param metadata and commander helper to only include
what's currently used in PX4
This changes the way RC is handled for the Mantis:
- The RC values are re-written when arriving over MAVLink. They are
rescaled from 0..4095 to 1000..2000 and the channel bits added to
separate channels. This makes the downstream handling easier.
- Gimbal pitch is moved from Aux1 to Aux2 as that should be the default.
- Aux3 and Aux4 are used for the photo and video trigger.
- The speed button is used as the FLTMODE channel and set to switch
between POSCTL and ALTCTL.
The limits might somewhat match the sensor, guessed based on the
original driver.
The quality is set so that spikes when sitting on the ground are not
used.
- uavcan firmware server no longer shuts down when arming (nodes might restart in flight)
- always handle UAVCAN parameters with or without the FW server active
- remove legacy ESC enumeration in FW server
- allow effectiveness matrix to select control allocator method
(desaturation algorithm)
- add actuator_servos publication
- add support for multiple matrices (for vtol)
- add updateSetpoint callback method to actuator effectiveness to allow it
to manipulate the actuator setpoint after allocation
- handle motor stopping & reversal
- add control surfaces & tilt servos
- handle standard vtol + tiltrotor
- rename MC rotors params & class to be more generically usable
- fixes and enables ActuatorEffectivenessRotorsTest
This fixes a case where the px4 startup is not stopped when the
px4 process is killled using -SIGKILL against the px4 deamon.
In that case, the currently executing command/client is killed
and properly shutting down with result -1, however, the next command
is started anyway.
This means that the next time we try to run the simulation we get a
"PX4 daemon already running for instance 0" error and PX4 doesn't start
properly.
By adding exit on error, we properly exit in the case where the startup
script gets stopped/killed.
- cmake NuttX build wrapper compile in place instead of copying source tree to build directory
- slightly faster skipping necessary copying (depending on system)
- allows debugging in place
- easier to work directly in NuttX following official documentation
- simplifies overall build which should make it easier to resolve any remaining NuttX dependency issues in the build system
- the downside is switching back and forth between different builds always require rebuilding NuttX, but I think this is worth the improved developer experience
- also no longer builds px4io and bootloader in every single build, for most users these rarely change and we're wasting a lot of build time
Remove params from airframe configs that are just set again
to the param default value or to the value that is
specified in the mc_default, fw_default or vtol_default.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- no longer start sercon or mavlink usb by default
- on USB connection (VBUS) monitor serial USB at low rate and start Mavlink if there's a HEARTBEAT or nshterm on 3 consecutive carriage returns
- the mavlink USB instance is automatically stopped and serdis executed if USB is disconnected
- skipping Mavlink USB (and sercon) saves a considerable amount of memory on older boards
Using mixers on the IO side had a remote benefit of being able to
override all control surfaces with a radio remote on a fixed wing.
This ended up not being used that much and since the original design
10 years ago (2011) we have been able to convince ourselves that the
overall system stability is at a level where this marginal benefit,
which is not present on multicopters, is not worth the hazzle.
Co-authored-by: Beat Küng <beat-kueng@gmx.net>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Agar <daniel@agar.ca>
Beat Küng
Benjamin Perseghetti
Daniel Agar
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bresch
Silvan Fuhrer
Jaeyoung Lim
Hamish Willee
Thomas Stastny
Roman Dvořák
RomanBapst
Igor Mišić
Martina Rivizzigno
alexklimaj
Alessandro Simovic
Thomas Debrunner
Mark Sauder
Julian Oes
Peter van der Perk
achim
alessandro
Matthias Grob
Ncerzzk
Konrad
JunwooHWANG
romain-chiap
David Sidrane
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