Update on Japan Innovation Challenge
Sonix Release
Issues
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10:02am - Japan Innovation Challenge update from tridge
Randy is out with team right now
Using CUAV imaging software
Didnāt find it yesterday
Camera issues
No team found dummy yesterday
Find the dummy!
Realistically Human observers wouldnāt be able to spot that from an aircraft in a large area
Today theyāll be getting images with Bayer data
Michael_duBreuil: hadnāt grabbed the raw photo before, lens/camera needs some help not terribly crisp
10:06am - Sonix firmware has been released for SkyRocket SkyViper
Grab it and play!
Very compact system with wifi, video and companion computer
James found some small fixes to be made in parameter descriptions
10:08am - several problems in Plane with tridge
High priority
Flip on takeoff
Another high priority one
Please bring any high priority issues to tridgeās attention
MdB: Short failsafe fix!
New airspeed sensor support coming in soon
New one from Drotek
Pressure sensor 33
SPD33x?
Kevin from DroTek has offered to write the driver for us
PR is in place
Tomās done a first-pass review
Couple of new baro drivers
Important since the ms5611 is becoming rare
10:13am - Issues
do -land-start
Mission-based configuration parameters for landing items
Between do-land-start and a landing waypoint
Stay out of arcs
Approach vectors
Many do-land-config messages with enums?
Or many messages setting different things?
Will the mission editor be able to intuit the correct thing
First item specifies meaning of subsequent fields
Which isnāt something that currently gets done much if at all
MdB expects these to be abstracted in the interface
āComplex mission itemsā
AP_Mission canāt store a 7-field command
MdB has taken that into account
This is like what mav-cmd does
15 bytes per
Tridge doesnāt like too much state
A reset would be a possibility
Landing configuration should stay ātil overwritten
Need a way to undo each thing
Mdb thinks do-land-start should reset everything
pymavlink will need some funky changes to support
We can handle 16-bit mav-cmdsā¦.
Need to check 253 isnāt used in PX4 mavlink repo
The 16-bit thing is very messy, so investigation will be required
Tridge would like multiple entries at a high index number
Linkage is missing from XML so gcs will need to be modified too much
List of mission will be more readable
Do-land-start resetting stuff?
Add a boolean to do-land-start?
āpreserveā
Have an entry for do_land_config_reset?
MdB thinks config should just be between do-land-start and landing point
10:38am - Slow loops with Copter 3.5 and 3.6 on Pixhawk 2.0 and 2.1 Ā· Issue #7060 Ā· ArduPilot/ardupilot Ā· GitHub
Very long one could be explained with LOG_FILE_DSRMROT
Should do all file operations in IO thread
Maybe commonise code from Terrain?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwxNJyHTG9XJbllfNTd3TmJHNU0/view?usp=sharing
Could pre-open the file
15ms is bad, 100ms is very bad
Check standard deviation
Long loops detune Copter
PM message within 10s of arming is not representative
Mattās 10m log shows significant issues
Definitely worth looking into further
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwxNJyHTG9XJejljWm5rZ0MtQ00/view?usp=sharing
Need to replicate on master
Suggestion to set INS_FAST_SAMPLE=0 and see if it helps
11:10am - Jaime and GSoC
320+ mentors and org admins from all over the world
Open-source licensing compliance issues as usualā¦
Jaimeās written a blog post (link in agenda)
Jaime sees more communication would be good with students
More of a discussion on selection
Minutes are linked to from blog post
We were a very successful example of GSoC
Jaime thinkās weāre doing something right!
Tridge: Partnerās program seems to be working very well!
11:12am - Failure to transition, and uncontrolled climbing due to interaction of VTOL & FW profiles Ā· Issue #7062 Ā· ArduPilot/ardupilot Ā· GitHub
Failure to transition
Tridge just needs time to investigate
Significant issues
Several hours to investigate
Great work from Nick @ Carbonix to collate these issues
Theyāre now partners and will be added to the page shortly!
11:17am - Update common-stores.rst by auturgy Ā· Pull Request #977 Ā· ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki Ā· GitHub
James: standardise the way weāre approaching āadvertisingā throughout the Wiki
Need to treat partners the same in the wiki
Ruffling feathers, sorry for that
E.g. pages that have a perceived bias towards a particular vendor while also perceived as pretending to be a āgenericā page
Page in question should get more detail for other products rather than less for C&T!
Stores ā ArduPilot documentation
Perhaps each store could have an up-to 60 or 70-character description
Maybe have an expanding thingy so you click a + and have it expand
JP: yup - longer term that page will actually disappear.
Marketing committee has been working towards getting together a good resource to replace it
Many stores have better parts for Solo than 3DRā¦
https://www.amazon.com/l/9119871011
Shouldnāt link directly
Harder than it looks
Continue to link 3DR store
A lot of partners are service providers so we need a restructure to separate them out and make it easy to find a partner to help with problems
MdB: Promote partners first is fair I think, but stirpping others out seems wrong
Our partners are awesomeā¦.
11:33am - reminder of unconference in just over a week
Any program? Timetable?
Discuss chat?
Might not be public yet
Thereās a link in the agenda
22nd and 23rd are when things are really happening
One time zone for China
Same as Perth
11:35am - Rob and 3.5.3 bug
Paul confirms bug
Altitude blending into EKF origin
Copter can descend into terrain
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)
Thereās a PR for it which has been merged
Should be linked here: Copter 3.5 Backports Ā· GitHub
Should also go into plane 3.8
Not a trivial one to cherry-pick in
Quite a bit of work to bring in
Loss Of Altitude in Auto with Copter 3.5 - #22 by priseborough
11:44am - James
JP: On another note, I merged Chris Olsenās tradheli tuning guide. There are some links that are missing, but it is MUCH better than what we had, and is written around current firmware/params
11:46am - contribution of the month
Tridge would like to nominate Chris Olson for all the wonderful support work heās been doing
11:48am - Maverick
Several people looking at helping out with Maverick
Need an online log analysis tool to put into the cloud
Take some parts from Maverick and delivery as cloud service?
Collecting logs is handy
Amilcarās still working with his legal department
Tridge wants to do stuff in the SkyViper web interface (in web browser)
JP: theyāve had a tool for a long time, i think it only recently moved from the uaventure longmucher to a px4 tool
[11:53 AM] (Channel) Buzz: GitHub - PX4/flight_review: web application for flight log analysis & review