Using mixers on the IO side had a remote benefit of being able to
override all control surfaces with a radio remote on a fixed wing.
This ended up not being used that much and since the original design
10 years ago (2011) we have been able to convince ourselves that the
overall system stability is at a level where this marginal benefit,
which is not present on multicopters, is not worth the hazzle.
Co-authored-by: Beat Küng <beat-kueng@gmx.net>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Agar <daniel@agar.ca>
This is to avoid potential race conditions during startup.
All startup code runs sequentially atm, so this is just for robustness
for later (e.g. concurrent pwm_out and dshot start).
This allows modules to do a first-come-first-serve pin/timer reservation
on bootup.
E.g. camera trigger reserves any of the pins, and then PWM/DShot output
will just use the rest of the available pins.
When the last WorkItem is deleted, it is removed from a work queue and the
queue is being stopped. But, the queue itself might get deleted in the middle,
in a higher priority thread than where the WorkItem deletion was performed from
If the WorkQueue::Detach accesses the member variables after this, there is memory
corruption
This happens in particular when launching i2c or spi devices in
I2CSPIDriverBase::module_start:
- The "initializer" is deleted when the instance is not found and the iterator
while loop continues.
- The workqueue is deleted in the middle of "initializer" deletion when the
WorkQueueRunner returns.
This prevents deletion of the WorkQueue before the Detach has been finished,
in the specific case that the ::Detach triggers the deletion
Signed-off-by: Jukka Laitinen <jukkax@ssrc.tii.ae>
Reduces CPU load by almost 1.5% @ 2khz on F4 and F7.
This changes the motor ordering on boards where the timer ordering does
not match the order of the timer usage in the channels defintion.
Only omnibus f4sd is affected.
There's an increasing amount of slow logged topics at 1-2Hz, which were all
updated in the same logger iteration, leading to data bursts. For log
streaming this started to exceed uart buffer sizes. By distributing updates
more equal over time those bursts are removed, reducing buffer size
requirements.
Tests showed during steady state a reduction of maximum topic updates per
iteration from 40 down to 17.
Also the SD log buffer fill level is more constant.
This commit adds SITL support for ignition gazebo. Ignition gazebo is a replacement for the "classic" gazebo for future applications.
The simulation can be run as the following
```
make px4_sitl ignition
```
This also simplifies the API a bit, since we anyway have to change the
drivers to pass additional information (the bus device index).
The orientation flag is merged with the rotation.
- sending protocol
- uorb event message & template methods for argument packing
- libevents submodule to send common events and handle json files
- cmake maintains a list of all (PX4) source files for the current build
(PX4 modules + libs), which is used to extract event metadata and
generate a json file
Daniel Agar
Beat Küng
Jukka Laitinen
David Sidrane
JaeyoungLim
Jaeyoung-Lim
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