- sensor_baro.msg use SI (pressure in Pascals)
- update all barometer drivers to publish directly and remove PX4Barometer helper
- introduce baro cal (offset) mainly as a mechanism to adjust
relative priority
- commander: add simple baro cal that sets baro offsets to align with
GPS altitude (if available)
- create new sensors_status.msg to generalize sensor reporting
- mavlink/mavlink is now directly included as a submodule instead of the generated mavlink/c_library_v2
- this also switches to mavlink development.xml by default
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>
change motor_count variable to 'pos_thrust_motor_count'
This is more specific to what is actually happening in the code.
'pos_thrust_motors_count' indicates number of motor channels which are configured with 0..1 range (positive thrust) all other motors are configured for -1..1 range
submarine only have motors with -1..1 range.
Thus, pos_thrust_motor_count = 0
Co-authored-by: Thies Lennart Alff <33184858+lennartalff@users.noreply.github.com>
- parameter updates can be quite expensive because they trigger nearly all modules to reload all of their parameters immediately
- limit modules from updating faster than once per second
* Added an option to the Simulator module to connect to remote Gazebo servers.
This is usefull when the Gazebo simulation is running on a different host than the PX4 instance.
For example, we are running instances of PX4 with a companion application in multiple Dockers, for swarming simulations, which then connect to a remote Gazebo server.
A "-t" input argument has been added and can be called from the rcS startup script as: simulator start -t "192.168.178.122" $simulator_tcp_port
* _tcp_remote_ipaddr defaults to nullptr. This way testing against nullptr it can be determined if localhost or remote host is desired by the user.
* Documented the option in usage().
Signed-off-by: Peter Blom <peterblom.mail@gmail.com>
This commit increases the send thread stack size and changes the thread affinity of the lockstep clocking topic. It also improves verbosity in case error states occur.
Daniel Agar