Dev Call Feb 18 2019 2300 UTC

Development Team
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Plane
Release Update

Copter


Rover

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Attendee count (max): 23

UTC2302 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10549

  • Speak now or report a bug later!

    • Merged!

  • Interesting to see how Rover is calling lots of stuff on the flightmode class; do like we do in Copter?

UTC2308 - new HAL CPU class

  • Some of this has been merged

    • Removal of the EKF dependency looking for class 150

  • F7s have twice the dmips (performance)

    • Also double-precision

    • Adding fourth compasses / IMUs etc etc sounds like a good idea!

      • How do we identify CPUs that can do that?

        • Add in a class-200?

  • We’re doing opt-in for features

    • Perhaps that’s a better solution

  • HAL_CPU_CLASS is probably dead after the already-merged stuff, unless we add a new CPU class

  • Statustexts pending is large on a cpu class

    • Make this larger on all boards?

    • Lots of memory ATM

  • Memory layout on H7 is working

    • 1MB!

    • [10:13 AM] (Channel) MdB: so more status texts everywhere is better :stuck_out_tongue:

    • [10:13 AM] To Weekly devcall: I’m quoting you on that @MdB

    • [10:13 AM] To Weekly devcall: Out of context.

    • [10:13 AM] (Channel) MdB: CONTEXT PETER!

    • [10:13 AM] (Channel) MdB: CONTEXT REQUIRED!

    • [10:13 AM] To Weekly devcall: :stuck_out_tongue:

    • [10:14 AM] (Channel) MdB: _status_capacity should probably be scaled vs port baud rate rather then fixed size as well… After a certain point super stale statustext is actually more damaging…

  • RPi tends to use up a lot of CPU on IO - e.g. SPI

    • H7 doesn’t use much at all due to use of interrupts

    • Io is very fast on stm32

    • Probably do faster loop rates on H7 vs Pi

  • Memory vs cpu limits

  • 312K is smallest we support on an F7

  • Largest is 512k

  • #ifdef based on RAM size

  • [10:16 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: you know the raspi can be run in bare-metal mode yes? (no linux)

  • [10:16 AM] To Weekly devcall: @buzz someone ported ArduPilot directly to the hardware?!

  • [10:16 AM] (Channel) TP: perhaps one core is ArduPilot, rest of cores is Raspian

  • [10:16 AM] (Channel) TP: ?

  • [10:16 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: …no but I think u just volunteered…

  • [10:16 AM] (Channel) MdB: buzz: congrats!

  • [10:17 AM] (Channel) MdB: /me selectively read that as buzz volunteering :smiley:

  • [10:17 AM] To Weekly devcall: /me is assuming that was Tom volunteering, since he has a scheme.

  • Tom is tempted to kill this new CPU class

    • Tridge points out that it gives you a central point to change stuff

    • You could use hwdef to do that

    • Closed!

UTC2310 - set home changes

UTC2328 - rejecting set-params based on component id

  • Will this break GCSs attempting to send to stuff

  • Apparently people do use the camera component id

  • Randy: Our component id or broadcast should be the ones we accept

  • Mavlink spec seems to say you should

  • [10:30 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: I can actually tell you I send to camera per the spec…

    • Even if it hasn’t sent a heartbeat

    • Hard-coded component ID

  • Don’t want to inadvertently set parameters where

  • COMPID_ENFORCE?

  • Make SYSID_ENFORCE a bitmask?

  • There are parameters on cameras

  • CAN stuff should be registered in routing

    • [10:29 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: The issue is that the things which talk on different cIDs tend to not also send heartbeats, which is required if you want the routing rules to behave as expected.

    • [10:30 AM] (Channel) MdB: that is a bold protocol assumption…

    • [10:30 AM] (Channel) MdB: I can actually tell you I send to camera per the spec…

    • [10:30 AM] (Channel) MdB: regardless of heartbeats…

    • [10:30 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Correct; and we definitely do this.

    • [10:31 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: route or drop.

    • [10:31 AM] (Channel) TP: PWNd

    • [10:34 AM] (Channel) MdB: (I don’t do camera params so I’m fine)

    • [10:35 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: This issue also used to cause companion computer to reboot the flight controller, so it’s definitely an issue which needs to be addressed.

    • [10:35 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Not parameter related, but same issue.

    • [10:35 AM] (Channel) Kamal: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/blob/6dbe6629412a49dcb0830e2d26f626c62ac1bd1d/libraries/AP_Mount/AP_Mount_SToRM32.h#L51

    • [10:36 AM] MarkW moved in from Ardupilot mumble by the server.

    • [10:36 AM] (Channel) MdB: some stuff like the reboot I’d maybe always force the ID to be correct

    • [10:37 AM] (Channel) MdB: I’d argue reboot/arm/disarm should always be forced to match

    • [10:37 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Presumably other ‘DO’ commands would also be accepted without being the right device.

    • [10:37 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: it’s better to be more strict and give a decent warning message than to continue to be liberal without any user notification.

    • [10:38 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Arming, disarming, etc.

    • [10:38 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: I think we should break that, sorry.

    • [10:38 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: ha no I can’t :smiley:

    • [10:38 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: that has shipped units

    • [10:38 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: and I think I’m correct…

    • [10:39 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: we are a camera (sometimes)…

  • Have to preserve existing behaviour

  • Special cases for arm/disarm

UTC1139 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10523

  • G_Dt may not be calculated or used in the best way possible

  • When scheduling is off you can stuff up your integrators and D-terms

    • And will apply it to data which is itself suspect

  • Missing loops would be bad in Plane ATM

    • Position could be off by a bit

  • [10:45 AM] (Channel) MdB: can’t some stuff (such as DCM) just call the scheduler directly rather then try and resolve G_Dt to be globally/best?

    • [10:42 AM] (Channel) MdB: plane primarily uses it for quadplane stuff… Consitency with copter seems valubale there though…

    • [10:42 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: it’s bringing the platforms closer together… maybe save fixing outliers for later.

    • [10:43 AM] (Channel) buzz_mobile: …or keep two timestamps.

    • [10:45 AM] (Channel) MdB: can’t some stuff (such as DCM) just call the scheduler directly rather then try and resolve G_Dt to be globaly/best?

    • [10:45 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Wouldn’t a better solution be to just reject the integrator updates where the timestamp is too long for the assumption of constant [acceleration] across the sample period?

    • [10:45 AM] (Channel) MdB: we do do that edwin at some point

    • [10:45 AM] (Channel) MdB: At least on some of the controllers, maybe not all of them though

    • [10:46 AM] (Channel) edwin.hayes: Ok cool. Seems like a prudent thing to be doing.

    • [10:47 AM] (Channel) MdB: agreed

    • [10:47 AM] (Channel) RandyMackay: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/commit/f06fdf330efaf8edb5c92374fd24cc328651e501

    • [10:47 AM] (Channel) MdB: Scheduler should maybe retain the smoothing internally for you, but yeah I support fetching

    • [10:47 AM] (Channel) MdB: https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/7223/commits

  • Needs more investigation

  • Closed

    • Maybe Sub should get the same as Copter, ‘though?

UTC1150 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10521

  • We should probably reject a request to stream a mavlink2 message out a malink1

  • We will stop advertising mavlink1 links as mavlink2

  • Old SiK radios

  • Copter will have a behaviour change

    • Won’t set bit

    • Copter can do terrain following with either terrain OR rangefinder

  • Issue on Copter 3.6 with boards that don’t allow terrain without an SD card

  • Can go in in when it’s rebased!

UTC1108 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10513

  • Does it make things larger?

    • Peter to check

  • Can go in once it’s rebased

UTC1111 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10499

  • Are people generally happy with this?

  • Apparently!

  • [11:13 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: do we always have frsky/devo objects allocated?

  • [11:13 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: I’m thinking this says yes…

  • [11:13 AM] To Weekly devcall: @MdB vehicle configuration #defines ATM

  • [11:14 AM] Unmuted.

  • [11:14 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: aww the memory usage!

  • [11:14 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: ideally if init doesn’t find anything we delete the object…

UTC1113 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10497

  • [11:15 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: is this faster/is the compiler not essentially doing this?

  • [11:16 AM] (Channel) Michael_duBreuil: … need LTO… these should be the same with proper optimizer :stuck_out_tongue:

  • merged!

UTC1117 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10477/files

  • Need to make sure _resend_uart handles signing and mavlink1 vs mavlink2

  • Pymavlink can force malvink1 or mavlink2

  • Combine with testing for signing

  • _resend_uart doesn’t fix the sequence number!

UTC1122 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10472

  • Peter to get this in today

UTC1126 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/8590

  • The 2D vs 3D thing should be reverted

    • [11:34 AM] To Weekly devcall: @MdB I got scope creeped on this one on a devcall, and look where that got me :stuck_out_tongue:

    • [11:34 AM] (Channel) MdB: A great test case!

    • [11:34 AM] (Channel) MdB: For autotest!

    • [11:34 AM] (Channel) MdB: So totally worth it

  • Randy is planning on removing the fallback to DCM in Rover

    • Velocity estimate errors cause DCM to go insane

    • Copter can be flown on DCM

      • Tridge has done so recently with SkyViper

    • Testing DCM: Set an auto mission and set ekf-type-0 and see what happens

  • Maybe add an option bit to disable fallback to DCM?

  • Dcm-vs-ekf is one of the first tests tridge does when looking at a log

  • Closed this PR - add patches to Rover to fix things rather than hacking DCM

UTC1135 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/10465

  • Peter to look at today

UTC1148 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10399

  • Tridge to look at

  • There is a behaviour change

  • Concern is lower-limit-start-ms being reset

    • Forces us out of relax

UTC1149 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10378

  • Precision landing for quadplane

  • Autotests should be straight forward!

UTC1150 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10361

  • Real vehicle tests required

  • Moved to NeedsTesting

UTC0051 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10290

  • Universal emergency stop

  • Should_estop looks good

  • This looks good

  • Should look at the Copter duplicate-state problem once it has gone in

UTC0056 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/10021

  • Stale

  • MdB to look at

UTC0057 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9506

  • MdB needs to look at new commits

UTC0058 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/9506/file

  • Parachute / sink rate

  • This will apply to Copter as well

  • Needs some rework on commit comments

  • Parameters that aren’t used should be marked as unused

  • … but would be better to have them work on Copter!

  • Tridge has added comment to PR to help with git

UTC0103 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/6912

  • Stale

UTC0104 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/pymavlink/pull/241

  • Tridge wants a unit test for this

UTC0106 - Copter and Randy

  • https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/issues/9498

  • Copter can lean past angle max

    • Randy can fix this

  • Matek405 wing std or wing boards don’t boot

    • Notify 199 doesn’t boot

    • External compass causes failures

    • Specific compass

    • Three users have reported

    • Tridge has put board on desk in front of him to try to remind him

  • Zubax won’t initialise when using ChibiOS when using battery

    • But works under USB

  • 3.6.6 Out with a bunch of fixes (see release notes)

  • No specific plans for 3.6.7 at this point for Copter

UTC0110 - https://github.com/ArduPilot/pymavlink/pull/248

  • Required by upstream mavlink?

  • Tridge has wanted for a while

  • Needs to be tested under ArduPilot

  • Should generate exactly the same headers with and without this patch

  • [12:11 PM] (Channel) MdB: We don’t just recurse to accumulate includes? oO

  • Could remove include from ardupilot xml for adsb otherwise XML will be included twice

    • Maybe have a set of files that have been included

UTC014 - Randy and Rover

  • Rover 3.5 is out

  • 3.5.1 out

  • Including BalanceBot in auto mode

  • An do object avoidance in ROS on master

    • Will drive around avoiding obstacles

    • Want to integrate it better to GCS

    • Help would be nice!

  • Hopefully an Antenna release in next little while

UTC0015 - Plane and tridge

  • No real news

  • Pending release but hasn’t gone out yet

UTC0016 - Randy and Funding Committee

  • Concern about partner renewals

    • Running behind

    • Committee is getting back on top of the problem

  • Tridge is chasing SPI on getting payments out for contribution of the month etc