it's a lot more readable and battery draining stops exactly at the empty battery voltage which makes debuging easier because it's directly predicatable
The GPS simulation now mimicks the real driver more closely and should provide even GPS delays. The delays themselves are set by the simulator, and default to 120 ms for Gazebo
The simulation engine had the ability to pause already and properly handled load spikes, however, it was not hardened against constant drift. This addition enables it to run at a constant slower-than-realtime rate successfully.
system_source - This battery status is for the brick that is
supplying VDD_5V_IN
priority - Zero based, This battery status is for the brick
that is connected to the Power controller's
N-1 priority input. V1..VN. 0 would normally be
Brick1, 1 for Brick2 etc
Battery now assigns connected from the api in the
updateBatteryStatus, as well as system_source and priority
Move RC and DL failsafe actions handling from navigator to commander (credits to @AndreasAntener)
Separate manual kill switch handling via manual_lockdown to prevent override and release of software lockdown by RC switch
Other changes:
Add failsafe tune
Fix LED blinking for Pixracer
Return back support for rc inputs in simulator but now it is configurable via cmake
The rotor count was incorrect which meant that control surfaces like elevons were scaled incorrectly. This was the main reason for really bad SITL performance
Instead of sending actuator controls from -1..1 for SITL, we should send
0..1 like we already do for HIL. This will enable negative thrust in the
future, e.g. for pusher props that spin backwards, or for vehicles with
variable pitch propellers.
add missing break
uorb topics generator: add multi-topics to the list of all topics
topic names with '# TOPICS <name>' were previously not in orb_get_topics().
This means the logger could not find them.
Affects for example actuator_controls_0.
px_generate_uorb_topic_files.py: add multitopics to generate_topics_list_file_from_files method
switch simulated attitude to new topic: vehicle_attitude_groundtruth
logger: add input_rc topic. needed for web plotting
input_rc.msg: remove timestamp_publication, use timestamp instead
mixer.cpp: warnx -> PX4_ERR
logger: initialize timer_call to 0 (hrt_call_every reads some fields)
position_setpoint_triplet topic: set the timestamp when publishing
px_generate_uorb_topic_files.py: add multitopics to generate_topics_list_file_from_files method
add vehicle_attitude_groundtruth to default topics
change to hil_state_quaternion
Roman