This feature periodically spins the unused motors on VTOL airframes, to
break off ice that has built up in the motor while it is still feasible
to do so. Each ice shedding event sends a motor ouput of 0.01 to the
unused motors for 2 seconds.
Configured by `CA_ICE_PERIOD`, the duration of the entire cycle. Set to
0 to disable.
Add PWM_*_CENTERx for each servo.
Use a bilinear transform to map actuator_servos to PWM signals.
This solution only works for PWM based servos. Other types of servos are not affected.
* PWM: Add servo trim option
* PWM: Improve documentation of PWM trim feature
* PWM: cleaner clamping and docs typo
* update documentation & safety
* add migration formula
* rename param from trim to center
* docs with center instead of trim
* move clamping and reorder values
* improve documentation
* adress failing range check
* improve documentation
* CA: add event for setting CENTER with TRIM
Signed-off-by: Silvan <silvan@auterion.com>
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Signed-off-by: Silvan <silvan@auterion.com>
Co-authored-by: Silvan <silvan@auterion.com>
This is required to support fixed pitch propeller helicopters that have
no collective but only cyclic pitch with two degrees of freedom and
hence only two servos.
The amount of thrust in the body z axis is then controlled using the
motor speed which makes particularly sense on coaxial helicopters
that need to control yaw with changing motor speeds already.
- remove deprecated actuator_controls[INDEX_FLAPS/SPOILERS/AIRBRAKES]
- use new topic normalized_unsigned_setpoint.msg (with instances flaps_setpoint
and spoilers_setpoint) to pass into control allocation
- remove flaps/spoiler related fields from attitude_setpoint topic
- CA: add possibility to map flaps/spoilers to any control surface
- move flaps/spoiler pitch trimming to CA (previously called DTRIM_FLAPS/SPOILER)
- move manual flaps/spoiler handling from rate to attitude controller
FW Position controller: change how negative switch readings are intepreted
for flaps/spoilers (considered negative as 0).
VTOL: Rework spoiler publishing in hover
- pushlish spoiler_setpoint.msg in the VTOL module if in hover
- also set spoilers to land configuration if in Descend mode
Allocation: add slew rate limit of 0.5 to flaps/spoilers configuration change
Instead of doing the flaps/spoilers slew rate limiting in the FW Position Controller
(which then only is applied in Auto flight), do it consistently over all flight
modes, so also for manual modes.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Directly use yaw controls for it, and don't add it to the allocation matrix,
as that would have an effect on rudder scaling if the wheel also would have
a yaw effectiveness.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
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>
- limit to handling only 1 motor failure
- Log which motor failures are handled
- Remove motor from effectiveness matrix without
recomputing the scale / normalization
- 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
Balduin