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sensors: create vehicle_accelerometer module #12597

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@dagar dagar commented Aug 1, 2019

Builds on #12596.

This adds a high rate, low latency, vehicle body frame, filtered, bias corrected acceleration for use in various controllers throughout the code base. The structure is analogous to vehicle_angular_velocity.

@dagar dagar requested a review from jlecoeur August 6, 2019 17:13
@dagar dagar changed the title [WIP] sensors: create vehicle_accelerometer module sensors: create vehicle_accelerometer module Aug 6, 2019
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@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ set(msg_files
uavcan_parameter_value.msg
ulog_stream.msg
ulog_stream_ack.msg
vehicle_accelerometer.msg
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bike shedding: the name is not coherent with other similar topics (vehicle_local_position, vehicle_attitude, vehicle_angular_velocity).

vehicle_acceleration is more coherent.

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Option A:
module VehicleAcceleration -> topic vehicle_acceleration
module VehicleAngularVelocity -> topic vehicle_angular_velocity

Option B:
module VehicleAccelerometer -> topic vehicle_acceleration
module VehicleGyroscope -> topic vehicle_angular_velocity

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I agree, but I didn't want to cause confusion with vehicle acceleration not including gravity.

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dagar commented Aug 7, 2019

I've applied most of your suggestions, including renaming to vehicle_acceleration with a mention of gravity in the comment. The goal of the original naming (vehicle_accelerometer) was to try and prevent potential confusion. Thoughts?

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jlecoeur commented Aug 7, 2019

I agree that it can get confusing. There are three different things people may want: measured acceleration (body frame, including gravity), body linear acceleration (body frame, excluding gravity) and linear acceleration (ground frame, excluding gravity, aka derivative of NED velocity). Finding unambiguous names is difficult here. At least the comment in the message definition is clear.

@dagar dagar merged commit a917f22 into PX4:master Aug 7, 2019
@dagar dagar deleted the pr-vehicle_accelerometer branch August 7, 2019 09:05
bozkurthan pushed a commit to bozkurthan/Firmware that referenced this pull request Sep 4, 2019
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