Need Support Figure of eight (8 figure) loitering by QGC

[saengphet]

Problem Description

I discovered that the PX4 code already implemented the Support Figure of eight loitering. Nevertheless, QGC does not have a user interface. This feature will be extremely useful for SAR and LiDAR calibration. As stated in the PR, Auterion AMC is now the sole provider that supports it.
PX4/PX4-Autopilot#21852

Feature Functionality

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Flight Stacks

PX4

Vehicle Types

VTOL

Other Systems

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Communication/Integration Standards

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Additional Context

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[DonLakeFlyer]

Closing since there is no MAV_CMD_DO_FIGURE_EIGHT in standard mavlink commands.

[DronecodeBot]

This issue has been mentioned on Discussion Forum for PX4, Pixhawk, QGroundControl, MAVSDK, MAVLink. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.px4.io/t/enabling-the-figure-of-eight-mode/48081/6

[hamishwillee]

Yes there is https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#MAV_CMD_DO_FIGURE_EIGHT

The support is in simulator only by default and needs to be compiled into PX4 firmware. This only works in FW, not MC, and does not return an ACK on anything other than FW.

The https://mavlink.io/en/messages/common.html#FIGURE_EIGHT_EXECUTION_STATUS is used to indicate the expected flight behaviour

It would be another option like "Orbit at point".

Note thought that unlike MC this is NOT the MC Orbit mode. It is triggered by the same command but it doesn't change the mode to Orbit. I don't know what parameters are obeyed (yet) on FW. Note that Orbit in FW does not allow you to set the orbit radius - a bug I think.

Make sense?

[DronecodeBot]

This issue has been mentioned on Discussion Forum for PX4, Pixhawk, QGroundControl, MAVSDK, MAVLink. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.px4.io/t/enabling-the-figure-of-eight-mode/48081/9

[DronecodeBot]

This issue has been mentioned on Discussion Forum for PX4, Pixhawk, QGroundControl, MAVSDK, MAVLink. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.px4.io/t/enabling-the-figure-of-eight-mode/48081/12