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Aerial vehicle firmware
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Recover rocket gracefully from in-flight reboot #49

Open yoos opened 9 years ago

yoos commented 9 years ago

This really shouldn't be the case, but we've seen it happen. I currently suspect faulty power connectors. In any case, can we detect an in-flight firmware reboot and skip to the FLIGHT state? Is this too dangerous?

It may be as simple as checking for increasing altitude or an extended period of negative forward acceleration on startup. The latter risks a false positive if the board is not sitting upright when being powered up.

yoos commented 8 years ago

Have not observed this with the aerial_v4 platform. Deprioritizing.

kylc commented 8 years ago

I think Pixhawk implements this. They may have some documentation on how they safely detect a hot reboot condition.