PX4 Sync / Q&A: Mar 26, 2025
Dronecode Calendar
Agenda
- Announcements
- Future Events
- Flight Testing Update
- Release Discussion
- Bug Report / Q&A
Announcements
- ROSCon 2025 Singapore Dates are finally out! Here’s the deadlines you don’t want to miss:
- Scolarships : April 18th.
- Workshop Submissions : May 2nd.
- Talk Submissions : June 2nd.
- Ticket sales begin June 16th! ROSCon 2025
Next Dronecode Meetup
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Date: 2025-03-26T04:00:00Z
- Registration: US East Coast #1 - March 2025 - Philadelphia, Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Future Events
- Webinar: Custom Flight Modes using PX4 and ROS 2 by Dronecode Member RIIS
- Date: 2025-03-18T04:00:00Z
- OSS NA 2025 - Denver CO - June 23-25
- CFP Closes February 17th
- ICUAS May 14-17, Charlotte, USA
Flight Testing Update
The team at Ascend Engineering (Chicago). are running flight testing for the community.
How to reach out to the team
- GitHub: Tag user @PX4/testflights
- Discord: #flight-testing
- Weekly on the PX4 Dev Call
How to Request Testing (GitHub)
- Write down the steps to test your issue/pull request
- Make sure to note the risk involved in flying
- Write down things to look out for / anticipate - eg: “we are looking for no yaw jumps”
- Add issue/pull request to the Flight Testing project board
- Make sure to specify any hardware/software requirements as much as possible
Resources:
Comments / Discussion:
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Are we testing Fixed Wing / VTOL: not yet, but platforms are available for bringup
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Are we using QGC Daily or Stable: Stable for now, we want to switch to Daily, but once video streaming is fixed in daily.
Release Discussion / Updates
v1.16 Release Discussion
- Fixed Wing known blockers:
- Multi Copter known blockers:
- Rover Blockers: Automated testing in CI maybe needed to consider it as a part of the release.
- Optical Flow:
- TODO Let’s make a Test Case for the flight test team so we can validate: EKF2: fix flow derivation for negative HAGL by bresch · Pull Request #24481 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub
- Simulation known blockers:
Resources
Bug report / Q&A
- [Bug] GPS failure, notify user · Issue #24355 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub
- @AustinMeyer How possible is to have Xplane as another simulation environment option in addition to Gazebo?
- @dagar Maybe a PR would work to have the base implementation proposed.