- start from a velocity setpoint pushing into the ground
to ramp from idle thrust up.
- start with a bit higher velocity setpoint threshold to make
sure the vehicle has a chance to really get off the ground.
- calculate ramp slope from initialization setpoint to the desired one
instead from zero to the desired. this ramps up quicker when you demand
a very small upwards velocity like the AutoLineSmoothVel and
ManualPositionSmoothVel tasks do at the beginning.
- don't stay in the takeoff ramp depending on the land detector, this
is unnecessary.

The comments and variable names were partly misleading.
I grouped all members, hopefully gave them more
understandable names and adjusted the comments.

There were two rather confusing function calls one to check
if smooth takeoff needs to be ran and one that updates it.
I combined them and documented the interface correctly
making the parameters non-reference const floats.

Co-Authored-By: Matthias Grob <maetugr@gmail.com>

Add jerk parameter for auto mode MPC_JERK_AUTO. Specify when a parameter is only used in a certain manual or auto mode

For now we need to ignore this warning which GCC 9 shows for the MAVLink
headers.

* VTOL trans: changed that now in transition for both MC and FW the corresponding (correct) attitude controller is running
* attitude setpoint for stabilized mode is generated by tailsitter.cpp
* reset yaw setpoint during transition to avoid big yaw errors after
transition back to hover
* VT_TYPE parameter: added "reboot required" metadata

To be able to still infer the direction of the thrust vector we
limit it to a minimal length even if MPC_THR_MIN is set to zero.

Note: This is a hotfix for certain specific applications.
The direction of the thrust vector in this corner case is very
likely to get into the tilt limit which is generally undesired.

A low gyro cutoff is needed for most medium/large size drones as the structural natural and blade-pass frequencies are low.
A higher value is still desirable for small platforms surch as racers
or well isolated autopilots and should be tuned by the user.
Specific values for config files are untouched.
The cutoff filter for the D term is disabled here as the required
cutoff frequency for the default D term of the rate controller is higher
than the gyro cutoff. In that case, enabling the D term cutoff would
just add some undesired phase lag to the derivative.

This fixes a potential dead-lock when 'uorb status' was used via MAVLink
shell.
The dead-lock chain is: DeviceMaster::lock() -> printf -> output to a pipe,
which blocks until a reader reads the data. In that case it's mavlink.
If mavlink makes a call that requires DeviceMaster::lock() (such as
orb_exists), it dead-locks.

This patch moves all printf's out of the locked state.

- when either terrain data was temporarily not valid (flying at high
distance to the ground) or the vehicle was not close to the ground
(_param_ekf2_gnd_max_hgt) the ekf switched to using the land detector
ground effect flag.

Signed-off-by: Roman <bapstroman@gmail.com>

- takeoff help is used for fixed wings, it increases the altitude setpoint
after a launch. A vtol does not need this as it's already sufficiently
high up in the air.

Signed-off-by: Roman <bapstroman@gmail.com>

This reverts commit 4a71984f.

The noise for airspeed is now applied on the Gazebo side and we can
remove this hack.

the condition to enter the rc mode switch evaluation was neglecting
the first connection of an RC when "no RC switch changed". this means
depending on the actual initialization values of _last_sp_man and the
desired mode preselected on the RC while connecting it would not get
evaluated.

pure refactor using De Morgan's law to make the condition more intuitive
since you think about when should I enter and not when should I skip

pure refactor of the huge condition into smaller const bool junks

Auto mode traj - limit yaw setpoint rate of change when generated in the flight task instead of clamping the yaw rate in the controller

Move yaw setpoint slew rate from AutoLineSmoothVel to Auto. The slew rate is now applied consistently to all the auto FlightTasks

Add missing underscore prefix to a member variable in mavlink_main.cpp.h and delete unnecessary struct specifiers in mavlink_main.h.

Migrate an additional set of 16 variable initilializations from the Mavlink class constructor list to their respective declarations.

By declaring the params above the navigator modes inheriting from
mission block we make sure the params in navigator are set before
read in the constructor of mission block.

This prevents uninitialized padding from being written to dataman.

This variable was not set and lead to uninitialized memory being written
to dataman.

This should not be any functional change. The only difference are the
variable scopes, and early return versus nested ifs.