- fixes the deadlock in px4io ioctl mixer reset
- px4io Run() locks (CDev semaphore)
- mixer load goes through px4io ioctl MIXERIOCRESET which calls MixingOutput::resetMixerThreadSafe()
- MixingOutput::resetMixerThreadSafe() stores a Command::Type::resetMixer command in an atomic variable, schedules a work queue cycle, then sleep spins until the command is cleared
- the execution of the cycle eventually calls back into PX4IO::updateOutputs(), which tries to lock (and waits forever)
and remove the possibility to set min > max to reverse.
Initially the idea was to add the checkbox on the UI side, to avoid adding
another param, but I don't think I'll go through the extra effort on the
QGC side.
The current practice of adding topics to the default set isn't scalable,
as it affects all setups.
By making sure topics are advertised on init, logger can just discard
topics that don't exist. This does not work for all topics, so topics are
specifically marked as optional. It can be extended to more topics later
on though.
This reduces the list of topics by ~35 on a pixracer configured as quad,
and reduces RAM usage by ~1KB.
CA: fix saturation computation
Since the CA matrix is normalized, the same scale applied to be used when using the effectiveness matrix
MCRateControl: use control_allocator_status to get saturation info
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>
PX4 uses banks of 8 outputs as a logical structure. Boards that have
more outputs than 8 get multiple instances. This is an arbitrary choice
that helps with overall structure and enables the mixing of different
device classes (like FMU, IO or UAVCAN).
This adds the option to limit the rate of change (slew rate) of an output that's mixed by a simple mixer.
To enable it, a positive number has to be added at the end (6th number) of the output scaler line of the mixer,
specifying the min rise time of this output.
E.g. O: 10000 10000 0 -10000 10000 20000 for a rise time of 2s, resp. a max slew rate of 0.5s^-1.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
sensors having mixer_module creates a dependency on sensors for
the param MOT_SLEW_MAX. Things that do not uses sensors.
IE. PWM only device should not have to include them.
I changed the input constraint in #15349 but screwed up the usage
because I was convinced it's püass by reference. I'll double check
for sure next time.
- create common uORB::PublicationBase
- uORB::PublicationQueued types are now type aliases
- ORB_PRIO use enum type everywhere to avoid accidental misuse
- PX4Accelerometer/PX4Gyroscope/etc driver libs explicitly advertise on construction, unadvertise on destruction. This is a workaround for any potential issues that might appear when accel/gyro cdev and uORB indexing doesn't align.
Ville Juven