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Towards controlled VTOL transitions #14405

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Towards controlled VTOL transitions #14405

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@RomanBapst RomanBapst commented Mar 17, 2020 •
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This PR enables following features for standard VTOL and tiltrotors:

  • deceleration control via pitch during transition
  • lateral control using fixed wing L1 controller

The above features can greatly improve path tracking during transition and reduce overshooting effects. Below you can see an example of a simple mission with the old state and the new state.
This PR also enables direction control in manual modes for both front and back-transition. This is very useful as you can still try to avoid obstacles during transitions.

This now needs a lot of testing in order to identify corner cases and improvements.

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@PX4/testflights Do you guys have a VTOL for testing still?

@Tony3dr Tony3dr added this to Ready for testing in Test Flights Mar 17, 2020
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Nice. Basically the FF depends on the pitch-to-drag coefficient, correct? I guess it shouldn't be difficult to tune but might require some documentation.

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@bresch Thanks for the review!

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@RomanBapst Please attach the logs of the flight tests

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* @group VTOL Attitude Control
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PARAM_DEFINE_FLOAT(VT_B_DEC_SP, 2.0f);
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In which scenarios does this parameter differ from VT_B_DEC_MSS?

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@dayjaby I have already prepared a commit which merged those two parameters, will push asap.

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@dayjaby This is not fixed by the way.

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Tested on Pixhawk 4 mini v5 v-tol Convergence
Wind Speed: 4.6 m/s
Modes Tested:
Position Mode: Good.
Mission mode: good

Daily master log:
https://review.px4.io/plot_app?log=0ef0f2db-7f12-438e-88ba-7694b917eb44

Pr log:
https://review.px4.io/plot_app?log=6a0c05f9-dfab-42b5-8b76-11d8151b0efd

Notes:
We did a short mission, take off In position mode, switched to Mission mode, the vehicle completed the waypoints, RTL trigerred, switched back to position and landed the vehicle manually. Good flight no issues.

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vtol_type: calculate backtransition acceleration in forward direction
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- use track angle to calculate the current forward acceleration

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@hamishwillee You've pinged me on another doc PR regarding the docs of transition. This will need an update in the docs. I can propose the changes.

@RomanBapst RomanBapst merged commit 2522435 into master Apr 2, 2020
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You've pinged me on another doc PR regarding the docs of transition. This will need an update in the docs. I can propose the changes.

@RomanBapst Awesome - when?

FYI the PR you refer to was merged: PX4/PX4-user_guide#702

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