This allows PWM and all other output methods to configure
stopped, idling and full thrust points and use them consistently.
The fact that a fixed wing motor can be stopped when zero thrust
is demanded is explicit and could in principle even be disabled.
The mechanism is the same as for a standard VTOL stopping the
multicopter motors in the fixed wing flight phase.
- 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>
Tiltrotor_extra_controls also contains collective thrust beside collective tilt, as passing a 3D
thrust setpoint vector beside the tilt is not feasible.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
It's enough that the setpoints and the unallocated values are logged, from these
the allocated values can be calculated if required.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Uses COM_SPOOLUP_TIME to slowly ramp the throttle and allow the
tailrotor to compensate in a coordinated way based on the yaw
compesation from throttle, see CA_HELI_YAW_TH_S.
This coordinated spoolup is necessary to avoid unsafe yaw twitches
because of the heli rotating until the correct compensation kicks in
through the feedback controller.
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
This replaces the propeller_torque_disabled flag to disable yaw by differential thrust
for tiltrotor and tailsitter VTOLs, as propeller_torque_disabled is not enough to set
effectiveness of an acutator in the yaw axis to 0 in case it's tilted.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Special case tiltrotor: instead of passing a 3D thrust vector (that would mostly have a x-component in FW, and z in
MC), pass the vector magnitude as z-component, plus the collective tilt. Passing 3D thrust plus tilt is not feasible as they
can't be allocated independently, and with the current controller it's not possible to have collective tilt calculated
by the allocator directly.
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>
Matthias Grob