Hello, I am working with a multicopter and I wanted to see hover thrust estimator topic in plotjuggler, for that regard I added the hover thrust estimate topic to be bridged via dds_topics.yaml which is supposed to only be published during flight. Before flight, I checked the uorb topics in mavlink inspector which didn’t have the hover thrust estimate topic (I added this in default.px4board and flashed in my fc) , it’s supposed to publish an empty uorb topic even when it’s not in flight i think?
The MC_HOVER_THRUST_ESTIMATOR seems to be working but it’s not a standard uorb message , so what should i do to just see thrust estimator performance?
My goal is just to see the hover thrust estimator work in flight to see if my drone is heavy .
If your goal is just to see the estimate, you can simply use hover_thrust_estimate uORB topic and plot the hover_thrust sub-message in the plotjuggler.
Regarding that , I am using microxrce-dds client and
I added this to dds_topics.yaml and uploaded the firmware
topic: /fmu/out/hover_thrust_estimate
type: px4_msgs::msg::HoverThrustEstimate
but the hover_thrust_estimate topic was empty during flight..
Did you had a chance to check the raw hover_thrust_estimate uORB topic?
If raw topic itself is empty, then i think we need to deep dive more.,
which version are you using?
If possible share the log.,
Yeah the hover thrust estimate uorb topic was never published but I checked it before flight and I think it only starts publishing during flight so I can’t say for sure if it worked during flight. I’m on release/1.16
MC_HOVER_Thrust_estimator was working before flight though,
You can check one of my logs from here, it’s in the same condition for hover thrust estimate
