HG-PX4 Example Lab 5: Build your own PX4 app

uORB subscribe to the compass and publish to the LED

You've made it to the last example lab on this gitbook! In this lab, we will learn how to create our own app that harnesses both the publish and subscribe protocols in uORB.

Objective

In this lab, we won't be guiding you through creating this program, but we will give instructions on how to complete it. Don't worry though, if you get stuck there is a solution file that you can reference to learn how to complete this lab.

The objective of this lab is to harness the data published by the magnetometer (compass) on the FMU and control the RGB LED when you're facing north. You should also print a message to the Mavlink console that you're facing north along with the magnetometer data.

Tips

Here are some tips to help you out:

• The two uORB topics that you'll want to use are

  • vehicle_local_posititon

  • led_control

• The yaw value in vehicle_local_position is in radians. You can use this data in radians, or you may convert to degrees if you'd like.

• The yaw value in degrees for North is 350 < degrees < 10. When the degrees hit 359, they wrap back to 0. (We will use about +/- 10 degree accuracy for "North")

Demo

Here's a small demo of what the output should look like. You should have some sort of logging in the Mavlink console as well as the LED flashing red when you're facing north.

Solution

If you need the solution to figure it out, or want to view some of the other tutorial files, go to this link: https://github.com/NXPHoverGames/Tutorials/blob/master/TutorialApplications/hg_magnet/hg_magnet.cpp

Extra Credit!

See if you can make the LED blink a different color for North, South, East, and West!

Contact

Thanks for following these tutorials. If you would like to see more, or have feedback or corrections please email us at [e-mail] or on https://community.nxp.com/community/mobilerobotics