Currently only precision landing is using the
LandingTargetEstimator and it is a waste to have it
running in the background all the time. With this change
the estimator is only started once the precision landing
flight task is activated, and stopped when the flight
task is deactivated.
- new ROS2 platform in PX4 intended for creating configs that build and run entirely in ROS2
- PX4_CONFIG defaults to px4_ros2_default if no config specified and in a colcon workspace with ROS_VERSION=2
- currently doesn't do much other than allow you to build px4 msgs interface package
- update all msgs to be directly compatible with ROS2
- microdds_client improvements
- timesync
- reduced code size
- add to most default builds if we can afford it
- lots of other little changes
- purge fastrtps (I tried to save this multiple times, but kept hitting roadblocks)
- 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"
- implement COMP_METADATA_TYPE_VERSION & add component_version.json.gz to
ROMFS for all targets.
- implement COMP_METADATA_TYPE_PARAMETER (only enabled for SITL currently)
* MC_HTE: unitialize with hover_thrust parameter
* MC_HTE: constrain hover thrust setter between 0.1 and 0.9
* MC_HTE: integrate with land detector and velocity controller
* MCHoverThrustEstimator: Always publish an estimate even when not fusing measurements. This is required as the land detector and the position controller need to receive a hover thrust value.
* MC_HTE: use altitude agl threshold to start the estimator
local_position.z is relative to the origin of the EKF while dist_bottom
is above ground
Co-authored-by: bresch <brescianimathieu@gmail.com>
with measurement noise auto-tuning
The purpose of this estimator is to improve land detection and vertical
velocity feedforward
Recovery strategy:
This is required when the setpoint suddenly changes in air or that the
EKF is diverging. A lowpassed test ratio is used as a trigger for the recovery logic
Also, a lowpassed residual is used to estimate the steady-state value
and remove it when estimating the accel noise to avoid increasing the
accel noise when the redisual is caused by an offset.
This validator takes measurements from a single airspeed sensor and:
-checks validity of measurement
-can estimate an airspeed scale factor (estimation enabled with parameter setting) to accout for errors in airspeed due due placement of sensor
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
This moves the hysteresis test out of the systemlib and makes it its own
small library. Since it still depends on hrt_absolute_time this does not
link yet. My attempt to get all link dependencies together failed.
Alessandro Simovic