- post takeoff, the aircraft follows the infinite line sourced from the launch point in the direction of the takeoff waypoint
- takeoff waypoint altitude is used as a clearance altitude, set such that once above, the aircraft has cleared all ground occlusions and may proceed with the mission
- runway takeoff state machine simplified to throttle ramp, clamped to runway, climbout, and fly
- throttle ramp must complete before switching to next state to avoid a jump in throttle setpoint just after takeoff if the takeoff airspeed is reached before the ramp is complete
- roll constraints near ground post takeoff removed from runway takeoff class (handled externally now)
- minimum airspeed in TECS is reduced to takeoff speed (if necessary) to lower the underspeed detection bound
- lateral-directional guidance uses a different period parameter during ground roll
- trim throttle is handled entirely by the position controller
- navigator should use speed setpoints
- added flag gliding_enabled in position setpoint to stills support gliding
Signed-off-by: RomanBapst <bapstroman@gmail.com>
rename follow_me_status to follow_target_status
enable follow_target_estimator on skynode
implement the responsiveness parameter:
The responsiveness parameter should behave similarly to the previous
follow-me implementation in navigator. The difference here is that
there are now two separate gains for position and velocity fusion.
The previous implemenation in navigator had no velocity fusion.
Allow follow-me to be flown without RC
SITL tests for follow-me flight task
This includes:
- Testing the setting for the follow-me angle
- Testing that streaming position only or position
and velocity measurements both work
- Testing that RC override works
Most of these tests are done with a simulated model
of a point object that moves on a straight line. So
nothing too spectacular. But it makes the test checks
much easier.
Since the estimator for the target actually checks new
measurements and compares them to old ones, I also added
random gausian noise to the measurements with a fixed seed
for deterministic randomness. So repeated runs produce
exactly the same results over and over.
Half of the angles are still missing in MAVSDK. Need to create
an upstream PR to add center left/right and rear left/right options.
These and the corresponding SITL tests need to be implemented
later.
sitl: Increase position tolerance during follow-me
Astro seems to barely exceed the current tolerance (4.3 !< 4.0)
causing CI to fail. The point of the CI test is not to check
the accuracy of the flight behaviour, but only the fact that the
drone is doing the expected thing. So the exact value of this
tolerance is not really important.
follow-me: gimbal control in follow-me
follow-me: create sub-routines in flight task class
follow-me: use ground-dist for emergency ascent
dist_bottom is only defined when a ground facing distance sensor exist.
It's therefore better to use dist_ground instead, which has the distance
to the home altitude if no distance sensor is available.
As a consequence it will only be possible to use follow-me in a valley
when the drone has a distance sensor.
follow-me: point gimbal to the ground in 2D mode
follow-me: another fuzzy msg handling for the estimator
follow-me: bugfix in acceleration saturation limit
follow-me: parameter for filter delay compensation
mantis: dont use flow for terrain estimation
follow-me: default responsiveness 0.5 -> 0.1
0.5 is way too jerky in real and simulated tests.
flight_task: clarify comments for bottom distance
follow-me: minor comment improvement
follow-me: [debug] log emergency_ascent
follow-me: [debug] log gimbal pitch
follow-me: [debug] status values for follow-me estimator
follow-me: setting for gimbal tracking mode
follow-me: release gimbal control at destruction
mavsdk: cosmetics 💄
- if following line segment (fixed-wing position control) switch waypoint when in acceptance radius OR passed the second waypoint. this handles the case of being beyond the second waypoint but not within the acceptance radius without the need to fly back to the waypoint (e.g. after a loiter up to waypoint alt)
- sync navigator and fw pos ctrl waypoint acceptance altitude
Unwraps the set_loiter_item() to solve the issue where the altitdue setpoint
in a MC takeoff wasn't correctly used.
Signed-off-by: RomanBapst <bapstroman@gmail.com>
Not accepting the waypoint causes the vehicle to perform a sharp turn after passing
the land waypoint and this causes worse unexected behavior.
Signed-off-by: RomanBapst <bapstroman@gmail.com>
This fixes a regression introduced in
https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/pull/16646
which meant that the acceptance radius was no longer used at all for
multicopter, and instead only the NAV_ACC_RAD param was used.
With this change we use the acceptance radius of the mission item again
if it is actually set (and not NAN) which we did not do before, and we
only do that for multicopter.
This enables the navigator to wait for a specific gate coordinate to pass orthogonally to the current trajectory. This is particularly helpful for payload / camera handling in missions and avoids a dependency of payload handling on navigation waypoints.
The asinf function is NaN outside of -1 to 1. Therefore, it probably
makes sense to constrain the input to prevent NaN setpoints further down
the line.
Thomas Stastny