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>
and remove the px4_ prefix, except for px4_config.h.
command to update includes:
for k in app.h atomic.h cli.h console_buffer.h defines.h getopt.h i2c.h init.h log.h micro_hal.h module.h module_params.h param.h param_macros.h posix.h sem.h sem.hpp shmem.h shutdown.h tasks.h time.h workqueue.h; do for i in $(grep -rl 'include <px4_'$k src platforms boards); do sed -i 's/#include <px4_'$k'/#include <px4_platform_common\/'$k/ $i; done; done
for in $(grep -rl 'include <px4_config.h' src platforms boards); do sed -i 's/#include <px4_config.h/#include <px4_platform_common\/px4_config.h'/ $i; done
Transitional headers for submodules are added (px4_{defines,log,time}.h)
To run:
cd src/lib/mixer
make tests
This will validate the C++ implementation by taking the python
implementation as ground-truth. It runs through various actuator control
command values for all airmode variations and several mixer types.
The python script also allows to prototype new mixer algorithms.
It is not integrated into the existing build system, because it's easier
to use that way, with less dependencies, and faster testing workflow.
It could however be a bit more integrated.
Reference: https://github.com/Auterion/Flight_Control_Prototyping_Scripts/tree/master/control_allocation
The threads running commands for clients through the Posix daemon used
to write to a char buffer through snprintf (etc.) which was then written
directly to the file descriptor, whereas in the other case printf
(etc.) was used to write to stdout (FILE*). Both versions used some
macro's and repeated code to have the same output.
This change unifies these two cases by using a FILE* in both cases. The
(line) buffering is done by the standard C library's implementation
(just like with stdout), and px4_log.c now uses the same code in all
cases (using fprintf, etc.) for printing (colored) output.
compiler warning:
../../src/systemcmds/tests/test_mixer.cpp: In member function ‘bool MixerTest::loadAllTest()’:
../../src/systemcmds/tests/test_mixer.cpp:202:18: error: ‘char* strncpy(char*, const char*, size_t)’ output truncated before terminating nul copying 1 byte from a string of the same length [-Werror=stringop-truncation]
(void)strncpy(&buf[strlen(MIXER_ONBOARD_PATH)], "/", 1);
We use the real defines now and test them against every mixer on the system. This means we should catch transfer errors now before even hitting master.
Daniel Agar