Issues & Pull Requests
Plane
Copter & Rover
GSOC
Conference
Attendee count (max): 15
Pre-agenda:
- Discussion of html interface for networking layer and what techs to watch
UTC1100 - AP_RangeFinder: cleanup rangefinder timeout handling by tridge · Pull Request #26528 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Cleanup rangefinder timeout handling
- Minimal fix in one commit, proper in another
- Proper fix is important for some backends
- LUA in particular, if you don’t get data for 0.5 seconds you’ll never get data again
- We are inconsistent with what we do when distance goes to zero
- Someone needs to go through this PR
- Also sleeping in the main thread
- DroneCAN driver failing?
- Multicast packets go out the routed interface?!
UTC1107 - AP_Scripting: allow expansion of memory for scripting at runtime by tridge · Pull Request #26517 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Allow expansion of memory at runtime
- Allow expansion of RAM dynamically
- PH has some feedback
- For 4.5 ?
- It’s a reliability thing?
UTC1121 - ROMFS: avoid decompressing in stat() by tridge · Pull Request #26558 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Avoid decompressing a file on stat calls
- Tridge will change a simple stylistic thing and then merge
UTC1124 - AP_Logger: avoid logging dma.txt for normal builds by tridge · Pull Request #26559 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Avoid logging dma.txt into the log file
- Most of the time it’s just empty
- We enable on first fetch
- Gate this behind HAL_DEBUG_BUILD
- Can tell DMA contention from this file
- Custom build server option to add statistics and/or this dma option
- And start logging dma stuff straight away
UTC1129 - HAL_ChibiOS: added RaidolinkPIX6 support by radiolinkW · Pull Request #26139 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Pix6 support from RadioLink
- They’ve put their source code up for the single-page-parameter stuff
- Could potentially bring their patch in as #ifdef
- There’s an obvious race condition with this stuff
- MergeOnCIPass
- Having the user be able to set a URL to pull manifests from multiple sites in MissionPlanner would be kind of interesting
- fragmentation?
UTC1143 - common: add set-camera-source command by rmackay9 · Pull Request #351 · ArduPilot/mavlink · GitHub
- Some messages from mavlink/mavlink
- Set storage command
- Set camera data source message
- Some cameras already accept these
- The enumeration doesn’t really matter as you can have more than one of each
- Need both an IR wide-angle and RGB wide-angle
- Rgb zoom / rgb non-zoom
- Thermal-zoom thermal non-zoom?
- Peter will chase up “unsupported” upstream
- merged!
UTC1143 - Camera/GCS_MAVLink/Mission: add set-camera-source support by rmackay9 · Pull Request #26172 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- New command for setting source types
- A few changes but looks good
UTC1157 - AP_Motors: add new PWM_TYPE_ANGLE by IamPete1 · Pull Request #26415 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- New PWM_TYPE_ANGLE
- Merge after Willian has another test and says it is good
UTC1159 - Copter: Heli: move runup event log down to AP_Motors by IamPete1 · Pull Request #26330 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Move runup event log
- Merged
UTC0002 - Copter: support `DO_LAND_REJOIN` in AUTO RTL mode by IamPete1 · Pull Request #26383 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Copter: DO_LAND_REJOIN in AUTO_RTL mode
- Instead of DO_LAND_REJOIN you have at furthest-away point of the mission
- Why do this rather than DO_LAND_START?
- Find the nearest point on the path…
- Splines?!
- PH has not checked
- Splines?!
- Only works up to a DO_LAND_START
- Find the nearest point on the path…
- Tom’s thinking about interactions between this and his script which does lidar measurements and whatnot
- Have a flag for DO_LAND_START that just says you can rejoin anywhere on the path between this and home?
- Would lose the bit where it only chooses between rejoin and do_land_start
- Stopping point stuff because choice of waypoint was made then it would blow past that waypoint and would have been better to use the other one
- Mavlink should get merged
UTC0016 - GCS_MAVLink: GCS_Common: Add support to MAV_CMD_DO_SET_SYS_CMP_ID by patrickelectric · Pull Request #26424 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Set sys_cmp mavlink message
- Rather than setting parameters
- Peter left a review
- Peter will work at changing “reboot” to “take effect immediately”
UTC0027 - Remove class specifier prefixing Location in function declarations by srmainwaring · Pull Request #26503 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Not a good idea; forward declarations are good
- Peter left a review
UTC0033 - Move GPS instance parameters to a sub-object by peterbarker · Pull Request #26497 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Per-backend instances
- More than 2 GPSs coming!
- A GPS type for blending will come in…
- … and a median as well
- MergeOnCIPass
- Peter’s enjoying his edu650 with way too many GPSs
UTC0043 - hwdef: removed CubeOrange-SimOnHardWare by tridge · Pull Request #26452 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Remove CubeOrange SITLOnHardware build
- Use the script instead
- We don’t really want to lose the parameters
- Tridge will just get dif o the panic in the too-many-compasses case
UTC0054 - RPM: Send on Periph and receive on vehicle by IamPete1 · Pull Request #26508 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub
- Send RPM on periph and receive on vehicle
- Add flags field
- Want a bit to indicate healthy/unhealthy
- A MatekL431 target to use it?
UTC0100 - Plane update
- A few bug reports in, which is great
- 64GB EXFAT volumes
- Can’t create APM/scripts on startup
- Tridge yet to dive into the EXFAT code
- New beta required for H7 cache bug
- Unplugging a battery, what does voltage go to?
- Analog you get whatever from the floating pin
- Anything with a protocol?
- What do you do if you lose it?
- Land?
- Could be bad if you’re over the ocean
- Continue flying and maybe run out of battery?!
Battery should be reported as unhealthy?
- We’ll make everything try to act the same
- Then work out what the behaviour should be
- A script with a minimum-equipment checklist
- Pitch-stick in landing sequence is bad
- Integrator windup in TECS?
- Changes in what it does in stick-mixing in landing sequence?
- Recalculate glide slope?
- Also the landing spot might change?
UTC0108 - Copter/Rover update
- Pixhawk6C-mini compass issue is back
- Appearing and disappearing
- Compass being used can appear on 1 of 4 addresses?
- … external compass?
- IST8310
- Viewpro angles were being passed in incorrectly
- Problems with multi-source issues
- When moving from abs-alt to a better abs-alt there’s a jump
- EK3 fudges baro based on GPS… perhaps we could do the same?
- Jump can be scary…
- A bit of Rover feedback
- But it was all good
- Tracker beta was created…
UTC0120 - GSoC
- Applications should start coming in over the next little while
- Jaime mentioned people have to go in and push some buttons
- Some interface issues.
- Mentors should go and agree to whatever they say
UTC0137 - Conference update
- 30 or 31 people so far
- Several partner companies
- Many core teams members
- Exceptions to rules are coming along very nicely
- A vote for $45,000
- $2,000 per developer
- Maybe increase for some special cases?
- Cheaper flights are disappearing…
- Book soon or get an expensive flight…
- Already going up?
- Incognito / private mode…
- When are other people getting there?
- Randy was thinking the Sunday/Monday…
- So was PH but touristy stuff 3 or 4 days before
- $2,000 per developer