A collection of ROS packages for fixed-wing UAV simulation and autopilot development
Long time no post.
But vacations are almost over and as you can see a lot of commits just went up
A lot of work is done when you get one week and no internet connection. ;)
So, a short recap of the new commits:
- A new friction model aircraft with no wheels, that will hopefully solve the sliding problem when on the ground.
- A place for mixing schemes in the code, in order to make manual control of multi-rotor and hybrid vehicles a bit easier. Though it goes through compilation for now
- Provision for multiple aerodynamic surfaces. You can now model separate wings on your aircraft and place them on separate positions in respect to the CG. This has not been tested though yet.
@tridge Hi Tridge. Last time we talked, you were trying to use l_l for a quadrotor SITL. However, due to the aircraft sliding on the ground the EKF couldn't initialize
The new friction model should perform better, so I'd like to try again. However, I can't start the SITL successfully.
The last known good command is: sim_vehicle.sh -j8 -f last_letter:uav_name:=quadrotor --console --map
Is there a new launching method?
Oh, I got the message wrong. The correct error message is:
/usr/bin/xterm: Can't execvp /home/george/ardupilot/.elf: No such file or directory
Another quick fix was needed (bugs), and I was able to launch AP::SITL + l_l
sadly, the problem of low simulation frame-rate still exists.
I was launching with: sim_vehicle.sh -j8 -f last_letter --console --map
If I disable last_letter's contorl injector node, then APM's control injector doesn't work and the simulation fails to kickstart
I got a bit jealous that everyone was using Sphinx and the rtd theme, so I decided to take the step too.
It was a bit of work to migrate from Markdown to reStructured
but I think it was worth it.
You can find the new documentation here: http://georacer.github.io/last_letter/index.html
For errors or questions, you can submit issues from the pages themselves.
