Version 1.4.0

Release Notes v1.4.0

New Features, Changes & Additions

Dashboard Widget Design Changes:

• General visual changes: The waypoint management and telemetry widget borders have been thinned down, and secondary widgets such as those that display angle or orientation have been reduced to 75% of their original size.
• Right Widget Panel: This window now displays several categories of information.
  • General telemetry information (Ground mode no longer displays readings for sea level and altitude)
    • Vcc: Voltage readings will now turn red below 6.5v to indicate that the battery should be changed. Once voltage drops below 6.0v, a currently active mission will be stopped, and the vehicle will switch to an idle state.
  • Several pieces of state information have been added:
    • A status gauge which displays the moment to moment processing being performed by the vehicle.
    • APM: The current running state of the vehicle APM
    • Drv: The drive state of the vehicle
    • Aut: Displays the autonomous mode: (Full, Avoid, Stalled)
    • Flg: Decision flags being provided to the rover by its sensors.
    • GPS: The current state of the GPS signal. Log warning messages changes for signal states have also been added.
  • A ping sensor widget that gives visual feedback from the sensing of objects and their proximity based on the vehicle’s ultrasound sensors.
  • A bumper widget that displays activated states provided by pressed bumper sensors.
    • This widget can be enabled/disabled on the configuration screen. It is disabled by default as not all models support a bumper.
• Basic Arduino CLI (Command Line Interface) support.
  • The configuration screen can now be used to compile and upload sketches to an attached APM. This will still require any Arduino libraries to be correctly installed beforehand to function properly.
• Telemetry settings changes:
  • Several of the min/max/default settings have been fine tuned.
  • Sliders have been added for more intuitive control of values within their predefined ranges.
• The graph configuration popup window has had its window size locked.
• A minimum distance between waypoints is now recommended if two waypoints are placed too closely together.
• All mission waypoint manipulation via mouse or left control panel, except for clearing all waypoints, is now locked during an active/started mission.
• The heading angle widget now has a more visible directional arrow.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the APM version from showing correctly on the Configuration Panel.
• Fixed a bug that did not change the Start/Stop mission button back to “Start” on completion of a mission path.
• Fixed a bug where the reported angle of the vehicle to the dashboard, and the angle image for the angle widget were offset by 90 degrees.