ArduPilot / ArduPilot/ardupilot

Copter: arming allowed within fence margin

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Description

With a polyfence (and possibly tin can?) if you are within fence margin of the fence you can arm but the copter will immediately tilt hard to get out of the margin region. This led to tipovers on 3 quads in testing till we worked out the cause.
example log:
http://uav.tridgell.net/tmp/copter-fence-arm-margin.bin

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Research direction

Start with the provided copter fence-margin log and trace the arming and fence-margin behavior in the ArduCopter sources. Confirm the conditions that allow arming inside the margin, then define done as preventing the immediate hard tilt when armed in that position and covering the behavior with a regression test.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
robotics
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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