Create IR_LAND Flight Mode

[ghost]

Edit Arducopter firmware to create a flight mode that switches to the LED landing algorithm.

• Load Arducopter firmware using Arduino IDE.
• Create flight mode that simply mimics another.
• Set-up quadcopter simulator on linux virtual machine.
• Edit mimiced flight mode to perform necessary task.

[z-hawky]

Compiled Arducopter firmware without any errors. Created a flight mode, IR_LAND that mimics LOITER. Flight mode did not appear in mission planner. Next we need to test the new flight mode.

[bensmithct]

Quadcopter simulator is set up on a Linux virtual machine. It is unclear whether this will be very useful, as we obviously can't simulate the IR LEDs. However, we may be able to use it to see whether the code we create will run.

[ghost]

1/3/14 Created variables and functions for WP_Nav in order to get distance error from IR camera data routine. Also added IR_LAND flight mode to set_mode() in order to switch to IR_RP when a suitable Mavlink command is recieved.

[ghost]

2/4/14 Created an ir_lock variable in WP_Nav in order to insure that IR leds are present before switching to the IR_LAND mode.