* VTOL: take home_position into account for ground clearance
For approximating distance to ground in case there is no valid distance sensor
data, subtract the home position altitude from the local position altitude.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthias Grob <maetugr@gmail.com>
* Enable motor controls for fixed wing mode in tailsitters
This commit enable motor controls in fixed wing mode for tailsitters
This is needed for enabling quad tailsitters
* VTOL: differential thrust in FW: adapt params to be generic for all axes
Until now only suppoted on yaw axis. Not to be supported also on Roll and Pitch.
- VT_FW_DIFTHR_EN: make bitmask for all three axes independently. First bit is Yaw,
sucht that existing meaning of VT_FW_DIFTHR_EN doesn't change.
- VT_FW_DIFTHR_SC: rename to VT_FW_DIFTHR_S_Y and add same params for roll (_R) and
pitch (_P).
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
* Integrate differential control bits to three axis control
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
This is to prevent that that data from non-recent publications of the virtual
attitude setpoints are used in the transition code.
It removes the previous implementation where the update_transition_state()
method was only run when both mc and fw virtual att sp where recent, independetly
of whether both are used or not.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- As it is always only used for the vehicle command ack message
- It was a duplicate, hence making it error prone for maintainment
- The uORB message comments were updated to make the relationship with
the MAVLink message / enum definitions clear
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>
In the tiltrotor case, beside an F_z thrust setpoint also a F_x setpoint must be passed
to the allocator as the matrix has non-zero thrust-x effectiveness when tilts are applied.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
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.
