In order to test what happens in px4iofirmware when the FMU stops
sending PWM or control commands, I added a test mode. When the test mode
is activated, no controls are sent.
If disarmed PWM values have been set, we can't accept a disarm command.
If we did, the PWM output stop alltogether after the high pulse of the
ESC calibration.
__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS changes the behavior of inttypes.h to allow
defining format macros for printf-like functions. It needs to be defined
before any include is done, otherwise due to include chains and header
guards it may not take effect.
Instead of having to define it everywhere it is used, move the define to the
build system. Also update ecl and DriverFramework submodules to deal with the
changed definitions.
Reason: the value is easier to read & handle (for example plotting). In
most places the value is needed, not the integral.
Note that this breaks the replay format for sdlog2 replay
- voting is now at a central place instead of duplicated within the
estimators
-> this also means that estimators that did not do voting so far,
now have voting, like ekf2
- estimators requiring more than that can still subscribe to the raw
sensors
- allows sensors_combined to be 3 times smaller
- reduces logger, memcpy (cache) & RAM overhead
- all modules requiring only 1 or 2 sensor values now automatically get
the voted result
- this also adds voting to baro
Decreases the message size from 780 to 280 bytes.
In particular, all modules using sensor_combined must use the integral now.
The sensor value can easily be reconstructed by dividing with dt.
Voters now need to be moved into sensors module, because error count and
priority is removed from the topic.
Any module that requires additional data from a sensor can subscribe to
the raw sensor topics.
At two places, values are set to zero instead of subscribing to the raw
sensors (with the assumption that no one reads them):
- mavlink mavlink_highres_imu_t::abs_pressure
- sdlog2: sensor temperatures
Drawbacks of the previous method: when writing to the SD card, there are
high delays in the write() call of several 100ms, every now and then. The
frequency and length of these events depend on:
- SD card
- used logger bandwidth
- bandwidth of gps data (RTCM)
Since the whole gps thread was blocked during this period, it lead to
gps timeouts and lost module.
What we do now is: publish an orb topic with queuing. This makes it async
and the logger takes care of buffering. This means it's best to:
- use high logger rate
- use large logger buffer
- reduce logger bandwith by disabling unused topics
Julian Oes