PX4 Dev Call: November 27, 2019

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November 27, 2019

Agenda

• Status update by component
• Open section for the community (Please add your agenda items)
  • Anyone can propose topics for discussion

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Component update

Documentation

• Action: FlightTask docs (thanks @MaEtUgR)
• New CAN PM Docs

Flight Testing

• CUAV Nano reported Issues might not be hardware-specific needs investigation
  • ‍♂ Action: @Tony3dr & @MaEtUgR investigating

Weekly Report

Week 42 November 18 - November 22

Dronecode Test Team, Week 42 Report PX4 Autopilot Flight Testing, by the Dronecode Test Team. Sponsored by Dronecode. Summary 53 flights (Link to log archive) 5 PRs assigned No new issues reported this week. Vehicle Status [image] GitHub Pull Requests (Assigned / Tested) FlightTask: add 1st order lpf on yawrate satepoint for smooth motion #13430 navigator: fix triplet resetting/publication logic #13534 FlightTasks: pass the timestamp of the message that causes FlightTask-switch #13526 uO…

System Architecture

• uORB cleanup (thanks @dagar)
• Removed C++ uORB wrapper (thanks @dagar)

OS / NuttX

fmuk66-v3:Add Ethernet Support

[WIP Do NOT MERGE] v5x sensors

Comms

• MAVLink Call Minutes from November 27th meeting
• MAVLink Microservices versioning proposal (team hopes a decision will be made on the next call)
• MAVLink encryption proposal needs feedback

Secure communication in PX4 (Diploma thesis)

mavlink/mavlink

Driver

• New driver for stism330 (6.6 kHz)
• New sensor messages (with clip counts)

Commander

• Battery state PR needs more testing

Battery: make battery states not sticky when vehicle is not armed

VTOL & Fixed Wing

• Follow the NXP VTOL development, please share your feedback (by @igalloway)

VTOL Tailsitter Pointers

Hello all, The NXP Drone Team are hoping to make a low cost tailsitter VTOL to allow STEM and other experimentation using the RDDRONE-FMUK66 from NXP. We will be working with the team from Flitetest on this and will re-purpose some of their foamboard wing designs (see the images below). We want to follow best practices, but do not have a lot of experience with VTOL. One of the goals is to also (hopefully) have it breakdown to “carry on luggage” size. It was suggested it can be difficult to …

Multicopter

mc_pos_control: fix position setpoints being logged as zero when NAN

MAVROS / RTPS / ROS2

• Designed and planned a roadmap for setup update, post on forums coming soon by @TSC21

UAVCAN

• Team is waiting for v1 c++ lib to start porting to PX4
  • Question: What are the requirements for the c++ lib (@TSC21)
• Team looking for feedback on the v1 spec and implementation
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Avoidance

No update this week.

Open section for the community

Commander discussion by @MaEtUgR

• Classes should have a state, implementation is hard, need advice
• Action: @MaEtUgR please open issue to track all PRs

Durandal Launch

• New hardware from Holybro based on H7
• Team investigate v1.11-alpha

CUAV Plans two H7 hardware releases

• Needs coordination with dev-team
• CUAV needs to provide schematics to review and a copy of pinout they followed with any changes they implemented (@JingerZ)

V1.10 Release

• Push for more testing from the community (@rroche)
• Plan is to tag a second release candidate, give it testing for a week, and call it stable by the next dev call if we don’t see any reports
  • Action: @dagar please tag v1.10-rc2
  • Action: @rroche please request feedback from the community

ADS1115 Driver by @SalimTerryLi

• Discussion follow-up on Slack #hardware channel

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Errata and Feedback

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