This moves the remaining handling of the manual control stuff out
of commander. All communication between manual control now goes through
vehicle commands, and the landing gear topic.
Publishes periodically (max every 1 min) a warning if the current wind estimate
is above COM_WIND_WARN.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
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>
* commander: send parachute command on termination
This sends the DO_PARACHUTE command to parachute component.
* commander: fix lying comments and printf
* commander: use one flag for termination triggered
This merges the duplicate flags _flight_termination_triggered and
_flight_flight_termination_printed.
* commander: correct variable name
* commander: always send tune with parachute
* commander: fix target_component for parachute cmd
The previous changes were wrong in that all commands were now sent to
the parachute component which doesn't make any sense. Of course only the
parachute command should be sent there.
- handle SET_POSITION_TARGET_LOCAL_NED and SET_POSITION_TARGET_GLOBAL_INT with ORB_ID(trajectory_setpoint)
- FlightTaskOffboard not needed at all
- bypass position_setpoint_triplet entirely (start removing extraneous fields)
- simplify offboard_control_mode to map to supported control modes
- keep `vehicle_control_mode` last state in commander and use appropriate flags in place of various main_state and nav_state checks
- consolidate scattered arming requirements in `arm_disarm()`
- there were a number of different requirements from arming via RC vs Mavlink that don't make any sense
- if geofence enabled require valid home before arming
- throttle requirements for manual modes
- remove unnecessary mavlink feedback that differs between arming interfaces (mavlink vs RC)
- let the preflight/prearm checks respond directly in most cases
Co-authored-by: Matthias Grob <maetugr@gmail.com>
Instead of directly doing the link loss reaction which by default is RTL a delay
can be configured such that the drone first switches to hold and waits
for the link to be regained.
- 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
- updating the global position validity should happen regardless of
being in manual position control mode with only optical flow
- condition_global_position_valid needs to be accurate to adjudicate
main state changes (eg going into AUTO MISSION)
- split out switches from manual_control_setpoint into new message manual_control_switches
- manual_control_switches published at minimal rate (~ 1 Hz) or immediately on change
- simple switch debounce in rc_update (2 consecutive identical decodes required)
- manual_control_switches logged at full rate rather than sampled at (5-10% of messages logged)
- manual_control_setpoint publish at minimal rate unless changing
- commander handle landing gear switch for manual modes
- processing of mode_slot and mode_switch is now split so we only do one or the other (not both)
- a future step will be to finally drop mode_switch and accompanying switches entirely
Co-authored-by: Matthias Grob <maetugr@gmail.com>
- ekf2 can now run in multi-instance mode (currently up to 9 instances)
- in multi mode all estimates are published to alternate topics (eg estimator_attitude instead of vehicle_attitude)
- new ekf2 selector runs in multi-instance mode to monitor and compare all instances, selecting a primary (eg N x estimator_attitude => vehicle_attitude)
- sensors module accel & gyro inconsistency checks are now relative to the mean of all instances, rather than the current primary (when active ekf2 selector is responsible for choosing primary accel & gyro)
- existing consumers of estimator_status must check estimator_selector_status to select current primary instance status
- ekf2 single instance mode is still fully supported and the default
Co-authored-by: Paul Riseborough <gncsolns@gmail.com>
Julian Oes