The PX4 dev team is delighted to announce the release of PX4 1.8. This release marks a milestone in the development of the platform and hopes to bring stability and performance improvements. This release is also the first one to include significant autonomy improvements in VIO and obstacle avoidance. It took 1,755 commits with the help of 31 contributors and thousands of flight hours across all of our supported hardware platforms to finalize PX4 v1.8.
Avoidance video:
VIO video:
Full release notes:
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@LorenzMeier avoidance code is a ROS node that flies in offboard, right? We are currently testing it and I wonder what is this 'Interface for external Obstacle Avoidance systems` that’s mentioned in 1.8 changelog…?
@LorenzMeier Thanks for the links. Are these tied to Aero and Snapdragon? Or, once can port the to other linux-based platforms? Basically I am interested to do both VIO and obstacle avoidance concurrently. Thanks again.
@LorenzMeier Thanks for your reply. The problem is that even if they are generic frameworks, there is a lack of documentation on how to make the setup in general. What if one does not have a Snapdragon FCU? The avoidance documentation is good to some extent but lack details on the hardware side. Hopefully, the docs improve soon.