- 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>
Strictly follow the following convention for tailsitter:
FW Attitude and FW rate controller always operate in the FW frame, meaning that roll is
roll in FW, which for tailsitter means around the yaw axis in the body frame. The interfaces
between modules is though always in body frame.
That enables us to do the axis transformations for tailsitter, that are currently distributed
all over the controller (attitude, rate, vtol module), only at the input and output data of modules.
Side effect is that the FW rate control tuning gains meanings change: while before the roll gains
where meant for the body axis, they are now always applied for the FW roll axis (also in hover). So
the naming now is correct for FW, while before it was for Hover.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
* Fixedwing rate control into a separate module
* Start fw_rate_control for vtol
* Move over airspeed related parameters to fw_rate_control
Co-authored-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
In review it was requested to have a different name for
manual_control_setpoint.z because of the adjusted range.
I started to investigate what naming is most intuitive and found
that most people recognize the stick axes as roll, pitch, yaw, throttle.
It comes at no surprise because other autopilots
and APIs seem to share this convention.
While changing the code I realized that even within the code base
the axes are usually assigned to a variable with that name or
have comments next to the assignment clarifying the axes
using these names.
To be consistent with all other axes of stick input and avoid future
rescaling confusion.
Note: for the MAVLink message 69 MANUAL_CONTROL it's using the full range
according to the message specs now [-1000,1000].
Completely detach the steering wheel logic from the yaw controller (beside using the
same manual stick input in a manual flight mode).
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
- vehicle_angular_velocity and vehicle_angular_acceleration are produced together from the same input data, consumed together, and share the the same metadata (timestamps)
- individually these topics each have 16 bytes of metadata (2 timestamps) for 12 bytes of data (x,y,z float32)
before there was a corner case where if in an auto mode that sets a reset command on the attitude setpoint message (e.g. auto takeoff), if the mode was then switched stabilized, this reset bool would never be changed back to false and the integrators would reset every cycle
The previous default for yaw and roll was 0.2, which is very low, and for wheel was
1, which is very high. A value of 0.4 makes sense to me for all axes.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
I guess this was a left over from times where the controller had a completely different structure,
a value of 50 is well outside of reasonable range (50x the default).
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
The previous max of 10 for the FF gains seems a bit very high for me, well outside
of reasonable reange.
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
-always reset roll/pitch/yaw integrators at the same time
-reset them while waiting for launch or during FW Takeoff before Climbout
-reset wheel rate integrator only when disarmed
Signed-off-by: Silvan Fuhrer <silvan@auterion.com>
Silvan Fuhrer