PX4-Autopilot v1.17.0 Release Notes

Alpha/Beta

This contains changes to PX4 planned for PX4 v1.17 (since the last major release PX v1.16).

WARNING

PX4 v1.17 is in alpha/beta testing. Update these notes with features that are going to be in PX4 v1.17 release. New features that are not expected to go into the v1.17 release are in PX4-Autopilot main Release Notes.

Read Before Upgrading

TBD …

Please continue reading for upgrade instructions.

Major Changes

• TBD

Upgrade Guide

Other changes

Hardware Support

• [New Hardware] boards: MicoAir743-Lite FC
• [New Hardware] boards: RadiolinkPIX6 FC
• [New Hardware] boards: AP-H743-R1 FC

Control

• Experimental MC Neural Network Module

Estimation

• TBD

Simulation

• Overhaul rover simulation:

  • Add synthetic differential rover model: PX4-gazebo-models#107
  • Add synthetic mecanum rover model: PX4-gazebo-models#113
  • Update synthetic ackermann rover model: PX4-gazebo-models#117

• Simulation-in-Hardware (SIH)

  • New simulation: MC Hexacopter X
  • New simulation: Ackermann Rover

Debug & Logging

• TBD

Ethernet

• TBD

uXRCE-DDS / Zenoh / ROS2

• PX4 ROS 2 Interface Library support for Fixed Wing lateral/longitudinal setpoint (FwLateralLongitudinalSetpointType) and VTOL transitions. (PX4-Autopilot#24056).
• UXRCE_DDS: Simple index based namespace (UXRCE_DDS_NS_IDX)
• Zenoh (PX4 ROS 2 rmw_zenoh)

MAVLink

• TBD

VTOL

• TBD

Fixed-wing

• Fixed Wing Takeoff mode will now keep climbing with level wings on position loss. A target takeoff waypoint can be set to control takeoff course and loiter altitude. (PX4-Autopilot#25083).
• Automatically suppress angular rate oscillations using Gain compression. (PX4-Autopilot#25840: FW rate control: add gain compression algorithm)

Rover

• Removed deprecated rover module (PX4-Autopilot#25054).
• Add support for Apps & API including Rover Setpoints (PX4-Autopilot#25074, PX4-ROS2-Interface-Lib#140).
• Update rover simulation (PX4-Autopilot#25644) (see Simulation release note for details).

ROS 2

• TBD