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Deployment / state #1

Open LorenzMeier opened 9 years ago

LorenzMeier commented 9 years ago

@bendyer Is this in a state where we could risk field trials? Could we target its integration for the firmware upgrade pipeline? I don't want to distract us from making the ESCs solid, but it would be great to understand the roadmap here.

bendyer commented 9 years ago

The device firmware is working fine, but we need to develop UAVCAN airspeed sensor drivers. There's something of an impedance mismatch in that UAVCAN has predefined airspeed message types, which these sensors publish, but from what I can see the PX4 airspeed drivers are expecting dynamic pressure readings instead.

@pavel-kirienko what are your thoughts on adding a DynamicPressure message type to UAVCAN?

LorenzMeier commented 9 years ago

Happy to change whatever is need to be changed on the PX4 side. We do publish both, pressure and airspeed and you can hook UAVCAN into both levels.

pavel-kirienko commented 9 years ago

@bendyer On the application level UAVCAN is inclined towards high-level data rather than raw sensor measurements, so if there's a clean way to use airspeed messages directly I'd go for it.