[Paparazzi-devel] Current sensor

[Timo Drick]

Hi everybody,

i am new to paparazzi and finally was able to get my twinstar flying 
with gps and all the autopilot stuff. I am very pleased with the system.

Now i was able to connect a current sensor with one of the example 
airframe configuration and get this working and used for energy 
consumption measurement. I would like to display the actual current 
consumption of the plain at the GCS so i added the current to the BAT 
messages.
Ok theoretically we can calculate the current consumption on the 
difference between energy messages and the time but i do not know how to 
implement this in the system any suggestions?
Or i would propose to add the current to the BAT message in the SVN. If 
no current sensor is available the system returns the calculated current 
cosumption based on the throttle.

I didn't find documentation for the integration of a current sensor on 
the wikipages. I will add the information but i am not sure to make a 
new page or should i just add the information to the airframe 
configuration wikipage at the BAT section.


regards Timo