intel / mavlink-vehicles

A Mavlink wrapper dedicated to the most common messages that are exchanged between an air vehicle and a ground station
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Mission waypoint update #8

Open guiccbr opened 8 years ago

guiccbr commented 8 years ago

The current mission waypoint is taking too long to be updated, specially right after takeoff. This makes the vehicle rotate to the home position while already moving to the next mission waypoint, what is a big problem since it might cause the vehicle to be moving in a given direction facing backwards.

guiccbr commented 8 years ago

Fixed in PR #10

guiccbr commented 8 years ago

PR #10 successfully prevents the vehicle to auto-rotate in the direction of an outdated mission waypoint. However, the mission waypoint update delay still can be observed, what causes the vehicle to move back to the home position for some seconds right after takeoff. We need to take a closer look into this issue in order to fix that problem.

Possible roots of the problem: