V1.14 Beta - Call for flight testing

junwoo0914 · April 5, 2023, 4:49pm

About

Currently, the maintainers are coordinating the upcoming v1.14 release (view the past meeting notes here), and has been releasing beta in the last few weeks.

We need your help to improve this beta release, thereby contributing to one of the world’s biggest open-source flight control software ecosystem! Now is the chance for you to contribute!

Why should you care?

You will contribute to the release of one of the world’s biggest open source autopilot system!
As an early-bird tester, you can try the features that don’t exist in v1.13 releases (listed below)
You will be sure that your vehicle/use case will work on the stable release (If you find a bug/weird behavior, we will do our best to fix it!)

Some of the awesome features you can try with this release

Natively supported dynamic control allocation (no more hassle with static mixer files)
Better supported ROS2 XRCE-DDS bridge (data throughput surpassing the MAVROS/MAVLink communication)
Improved preflight check reporting (no more guessing on what is really wrong when the preflight check fails, you can read the error message directly in QGC!)
Improved Failsafe logic system
Improved follow-me mode (no more jittery and aggressive follow me. Try out the butter smooth follow me!)

How to help

All the report/discussion/up-to-date information will be shared through this issue:

github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot

[v1.14 Release Candidate] - Flight testing & Flight Issues (logs)

opened 04:22PM - 22 Mar 23 UTC

mrpollo

Documentation 📑 discussion

## :exclamation: About 💡 For the upcoming v1.14 release, we are asking the Comm…unity for flight tests. This issue will be used for keeping track of all the tests from the Community. If you're unsure about upgrading, please read the preliminary release notes on the PX4 docs. Pay close attention to the Upgrade Guide before deciding if v1.14 is right for you. - [v1.14 Release Notes](https://docs.px4.io/main/en/releases/1.14.html) ## Pending Issues - [x ] Cube Orange Plus target for beta not available in S3 bucket: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/21358#issuecomment-1629618613 ## ❓ Why we need flight testing 🌏 Thousands of people around the world depend on the stable release of PX4. 🖐️ Before every major release, as much testing as possible is needed to ensure that our release actually works! 😯 Simply said, **more testing = better release** 🤗 We would like to encourage every community member to join us in improving PX4! ## 🤷 How you can help with flight testing 😱 Even if you have never contributed a flight testing report, fear not! Please follow the steps below for the details of how you can contribute flight testing. 1. **Select** a category from the "flight testing matrix" below 1. **Flash** the firmware (documented below) 1. **Test** 1. **Upload** the log (documented below) 1. **Report** the test in this issue thread! ### :bookmark_tabs: Flight testing matrix 📖 **Here are the table of things we need tests for.** This will constantly get updated, and your contribution to testing the missing slots (tests needed) will be greatly appreciated! | Title | Description | Vehicle/Hardware requirements | Testing procedure | Test logs | Related issue/posts | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | General | By testing your usual setup, we want to capture any regression / weird behaviors you may notice | Any | Test what you usually use for your personal usage, and report it to the comment below | | | | Optical Flow | With optical flow fusion enabled, the preflight failures has been observed. | Any Optical Flow / Capable of either Altitude or Position mode | With Optical Flow enabled, try to arm in altitude or position mode | | https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/20929 | | ~~Random 100% Thrust~~ | Due to edge case conditions by land detector & hover thrust estimator, multirotors showed occasional 100% thrust. https://github.com/hendjoshsr71 can reproduce it for now. | Multirotor (with low hover thrust input: e.g. 30%) | Takeoff, land and keep the throttle at low position. Occasionally vehicle will exhibit 100% thrust suddenly and shoot to the sky. | | https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/20275 | ### How to flash v1.14 beta firmware ![beta_flashing](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23277211/230138126-c7b02c00-f07b-4a4f-b6b7-866d69db6520.png) 1. Open QGC 3. Click the Q icon on upper right > Vehicle Setup > Firmware (Step 1 in picture) 4. Connect your flight controller to the computer 5. When the Firmware setup window pops up, click "Advanced settings" checkbox 6. Select "Beat Testing (beta)" from the drop down (Step 2 in picture) 7. Click "Ok" This should automatically flash & reboot your flight controller with the latest v1.14 beta release! ### How to share your log First, retreive the log from the flight controller in QGC Q icon > Analyze Tools > Log Download, and find the log you want to download. ![log_uploading](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23277211/230143915-4dad89ec-ab6d-43f3-9e5f-7a4624faa56e.png) Then: 1. Go to https://logs.px4.io/ 2. Click on "Flight Report" tab (this allows public viewing of the log in the [browse page](https://logs.px4.io/browse)) 3. Add the ULog file 5. Fill in the description, feedback, and video URL (if available) 6. Click "Upload" 7. Copy and paste the link of the log, and share it to this thread When posting on this thread, please mention what kind of test it was (especially if it is one of the testing matrix options) & general info behind it! ## Questions? Feel free to ask any questions regarding flight testing in the #dev-team channel in the [discord server](https://discord.gg/dronecode)!

Questions

If you have any questions about the procedure, feel free to drop them below. For questions arising from the actual flight test themselves, please post it in the issue.

Thank you to everyone who contributes by testing & keeps the community alive!

sibujacob · July 21, 2023, 7:39am

Hi,

Could you please provide a link to PX4 v 1.14.Beta 2 as I have incompatible issue trying to install through an older QGC version via Herelink

junwoo0914 · July 23, 2023, 9:04pm

Which issue are you facing exactly? Have you followed “installing v1.14 beta” in the issue thread above?

sibujacob · July 24, 2023, 12:20am

@junwoo0914

Thank you for the feedback. Y i have installed the v1.14.beta by first cloning the px4 master on my ubuntu pc and then using the specific cube orange board " make "setup. cmd. It has successfully done this process and uploaded without any errors. Also the flight log v1.14.beta 2 uploaded through anotther post .

The quadcopter doesn’t lift properly from take off. In fact whichever way i tune,from ground, it lifts simultaneously from right side ( front & back together) and tries to tumble over to left side.

I do not have any issues while i run with Px4 v1.12.3. It is smooth as butter and doesn’t require any tuning.

Also i see the “sampling Regularity of sensor data” graph is all over the place in v1.14.beta.x and just a straight horizontal line(may be micro values) on v1.12.3.

Is it required to erase the sdcard on the F.C before upgrading to new firmware or does it do this automatically.

Why does my QGC ( daily build latest) show PX4PRO v1.13-rc1 while selecting the BETA TESTING (BETA)