- Do not pull in PWM parameters when DISABLE_PARAMS_MODULE_SCOPING is TRUE since VOXL2 has no PWM nor any of the required timer_config files that go along with that
- Replace non-standard M_PI constants with PX4 defined M_PI_F constants
- Include missing header file for function hrt_absolute_time declaration
- Add new PX4_SOC_ARCH_ID for the VOXL2 board
Instead of always starting with instance 0 (potentially an internal
mag), first take the current sensor as reference to compare the other
ones against it.
The issue is that otherwise we can end up in a
situation where a switch occurs because the currently used sensor isn't
much better than a sensor with a lower index: because the selected one
isn't much better, we cannot "fail-over" to it and get stuck on another
sensor, triggering a fail-over.
- WelfordMeanVector now computes covariance
- use Kahan summation for Welford mean (but continue using float32 for actual mean, etc)
- WelfordMean and WelfordMeanVector handle initial value and count roll over
- Welford mean count rollover at 16 bit max to prevent numerical issues and shift weight to newer samples
- sensors/vehicle_imu: update Welford mean usage (now simplified with resets removed)
- fix vehicle_imu_status accel var, now properly rotated with full covariance matrix
- gyro_calibration: update Welford mean usage
- 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)
- preflight mag bias estimate is in the vehicle body frame and removed from the raw mag data after it's rotated, calibrated, etc
- in flight mag bias (from ekf2) is in the vehicle body frame, but stored as a sensor frame offset immediately
- vehicle_angular_velocity: ESC RPM notch filters minimize filter resets
- only allow one filter init per axis per cycle
- "park" ESC notch filters at min frequency instead of full disable
- relax timeout before a notch filter is disabled
- add new parameter IMU_GYRO_DNF_MIN for configuring the minimum notch filter frequency
- in the worst case scenario printing the error message can take longer than the next gyro publication, so combined with an infinite loop you could get stuck here
- vehicle_imu_status can publish immediately on any measured sample
rate change or sensor error increment, but the windowed mean/variance
shouldn't necessarily reset that often
- much simpler direct interface using Ignition Transport
- in tree models and worlds
- control allocation output configuration, no more magic actuator mapping to mavlink and back
- currently requires no custom Gazebo plugins (keeping things as lightweight and simple as possible)
Co-authored-by: Jaeyoung-Lim <jalim@ethz.ch>
- if using multi-EKF across all magnetometers then an instance of
vehicle_magnetometer is advertised immediately for every sensor_mag
instance
- this can become problematic if EKF2 multi-mag is enabled, but with
only 1 IMU (EKF2_MULTI_MAG) because you will be stuck with no magnetometer data
- all sources of optical flow publish sensor_optical_flow
- sensor_optical_flow is aggregated by the sensors module, aligned with integrated gyro, and published as vehicle_optical_flow
Co-authored-by: alexklimaj <alex@arkelectron.com>
- sensor_baro.msg use SI (pressure in Pascals)
- update all barometer drivers to publish directly and remove PX4Barometer helper
- introduce baro cal (offset) mainly as a mechanism to adjust
relative priority
- commander: add simple baro cal that sets baro offsets to align with
GPS altitude (if available)
- create new sensors_status.msg to generalize sensor reporting
Silvan Fuhrer