PX4 Dev Call: October 20, 2021

rroche · October 13, 2021, 5:00pm

October 20, 2021

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Agenda

Community Q&A
Roadmap
High priority queue
Release
In-Depth discussions

Community Q&A / Updates

Blackdevil wants to use https://www.robosense.ai/en/rslidar/RS-LiDAR-16 for video streaming to the ground station and obstacle avoidance.
Vatsal Joshi RPi microcontroller support on master. Every peripheral tested is now working. It just has to be rebased on latest master and finally reviewed. There is no off the shelf flight controller with the RPi microcontroller, it was tested with the RPi pico and manually sensors and outputs hooked up. Once a board exists that can be taken care of in a separate pull request.

github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot

Support for RP2040 MCU

PX4:master ← vxj9800:rp2040-support

opened 12:37PM - 16 Aug 21 UTC

vxj9800

+6697 -5

This is the continuation of the original pr #17966 because GitHub was not allowi…ng to reopen the pr. The current branch is rebased to PX4/PX4-Autopilot:master as asked by the maintainers. **Describe problem solved by this pull request** Add PX4 base layer support for RP2040 MCU **Describe your solution** A good amount of base layer functions are almost ready. Timers are for buzzer, pwm in, rc in, etc. will be implemented soon. **Test data / coverage** Testing needs to be done to make current implementation bug free. Timers will be implemented after that.

Updates

Griffin is asking about documentation for adding custom airframes to SITL jMAVsim simulation. He has an absolutely custom airframe and modules setup he wants to simulate and once he’s off the beaten path he found some issues with getting it to work. It turns out the modules were not even compiled in his test and that’s probably because the custom modules were not added to the SITL board to be compiled for simulation: PX4-Autopilot/boards/px4/sitl at master · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub
@MaEtUgR Finishing touches to the RC cleanup pr from @JulianOes Main change using an internal action_request instead of reusing the MAVLink dependent vehicle_command: manual control selection and cleanup by julianoes · Pull Request #17404 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub

Roadmap

Discussion based on board: Roadmap · GitHub

High priority queue

Discussion based on board: High-Priority Queue · GitHub

Release

In-Depth discussions

Dev call content suggestion:
- Community Q&A with all possible types of questions
- Project updates, possibility to discuss what you’re working on, not put anyone on the spot, main goal to spark discussions.
- High priority queue, go through but remove everything that is neither worked on nor discussed at the moment.
- In-depth discussions for everything that was not covered, takes longer and possibly is only interesting for a small group.

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