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Vertex One Software 1.1

Release Notes 1.1.1

Improvements

  • Improved reliability for Wi-Fi for the Vertex Gen 3

Bugfixes

  • Fixed bug where the Wi-Fi access point (Hotspot) wasn't working on the Vertex Gen 3
  • Fixed bug where live monitoring of the low-level flight controller wasn't possible through network on the Vertex Gen 3

Release Notes 1.1

Support Vertex Gen 4

  • Added support for the new Vertex Gen 4 including
    • Support for extra internal temperature sensing
    • Support for arm mounted magnetometer
    • Support for temperature sensors per motor
    • Support the Herelink remote controller incl. telemetry data
    • Automated support of configuring and updating Herelink remote controller
    • Support for SSH connection to Jetson through Herelink point-to-point link

Avular Jetson Operating System

  • New and improved custom Jetson OS
  • Revamped Avular CLI for improved usability
  • Added support for Simultaneous Wi-Fi Station and AP mode (Hotspot)
  • Added support for updating the Jetson OS
  • Added support for dedicated example containers for onboard development
  • Separate user data from OS to prevent data loss when updating the OS
  • Improved overall network reliability and performance
  • Improve the naming of add-ons and peripherals connected to the Jetson:
    • The real-sense camera has 2 names: ‘/dev/video_rs_rgb’ '/dev/video_rs_depth'
    • The See3CAM CU135 is now called: '/dev/video_rgb'
    • The See3CAM 20CUG is now called: ‘/dev/video_starling’
    • The U-Blox GNSS receiver is now called: '/dev/u-blox-gnss'

Drone control through state references (setpoints)

  • Added support for controlling the drone through onboard API
  • Exposed support for the following state references
    • position/velocity/acceleration
    • velocity/acceleration
    • acceleration
  • Added support for "anchor mode" to activate position control if velocity reference is zero
  • Request control modes from Jetson

Improvements

  • Improved IMU driver for more accurate timestamping of sensor data
  • Added timestamps to user exposed IMU data
  • Improved handling of state-of-charge and correlating fail-safe triggers
  • Improved stability of attitude controller and tuning of the performance parameters
  • Improved quality of LiDAR measurements
  • Improved performance of communication between Jetson and low-level flight controller
  • Improved stability of enabling the onboard mass-storage mode
  • Improved initialization time for position mode flights
  • Improved behaviour of arming and disarming commands before take-off

Bugfixes

  • Improved reliability of the onboard power converters control
  • Fixed bug where logs between 20:00 and 24:00 would not have correct timestamp
  • Fixed bug where some raw remote controller data wasn't exposed through onboard API

Changed versions

1.1.1:

  • Jetson Operating system: 1.2.1 -> 1.2.3
  • Flight controller: 7.0.0 -> 7.0.1
  • Vertex bringup container: 2.0.0 -> 2.1.0

1.1:

  • Real-time MCU OS: 5.0.1 -> 5.2.1
  • Jetson Operating system: 1.2.1 (NEW)
  • Flight controller: 5.1.0 -> 7.0.0
  • Power MCU: 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0
  • Arm MCU: 1.0.0 (NEW)
  • Vertex bringup container: 1.3.0 -> 2.0.0
  • Avular Remote Controller Software: 1.0.0 (NEW)
  • User container: 1.0.0 (NEW)