[Paparazzi-devel] new cam and pan/tilt routines in cam branch

[Felix Ruess]

Hi everyone,

there are some new routines regarding digital camera control and pan/tilt control (e.g. stabilized mode) in the cam branch on github.

Thanks to Chris Efstathiou for the updated cam and point files (pan/tilt stuff) and to Axel and the guys from Uni Stuttgart for the updated dc files.

The additions to cam and point provide a stabilized mode (input: camera angles from the pan and tilt radio channels, output pointing coordinates) and manual mode (input: camera angles from the pan and tilt radio channels, output servo positions).
The additions to dc allow for better time-based, distance-based and angle-based shutter control of the digital camera.
There are also two new navigation routines (poly survey advanced and spiral) from the guys at Uni Stuttgart that use the new dc routines to take pictures while flying a spiral or using the new advanced poly survey.

Would be cool if some of you could test these and if everything works ok we can merge that back into the master branch.
Also it would be very helpful to have some documentation on how to use/configure these on the wiki (e.g. update http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Pan_Tilt_Camera, http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/Advanced_Navigation_Routines and create new pages for digital_cam)

Cheers, Felix