Ryan

* This WIP message replaces use of named-value-float in MAVProxy's soar module which displays the ArduSoar EKF state on the map * See https://github.com/ArduPilot/MAVProxy/pull/1500 for the GCS implementation of the...

mavproxy.py: Clean up log_writer exit

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# Purpose Closes #1414 # Details * The log thread was marked as [daemon=True](https://docs.python.org/3/library/threading.html#threading.Thread.daemon) * daemon threads are [not recommended anymore by the python maintainers](https://discuss.python.org/t/getting-rid-of-daemon-threads/68836) * The threading library recommends...

Remove unused imports

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VSCode shows that many imports are unused in MAVProxy. Let's clean them up in the user examples.

Add ros1_bridge example (Ubuntu Focal, ROS 2 Humble, ROS 1 Noetic)

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# Purpose Share some work I did getting this combination of distributions working together with [ros1_bridge](https://github.com/ros2/ros1_bridge). I don't think the maintainers are interested in supporting Tier 3 distros in these...

# Improvements * Upgrade Cesium to 1.1.23 to account for deleted `layer.json` sources * Comment out bing key because it's not needed to run * Update viewer initialization to use...

# Details * I observed the benchmarks failing to write the output csv, but no error reported * Now, an error is reported if it fails to write the data...

# Purpose Port the terrain planner benchmark to ROS 2, and exclude the rest from the build. Also, update the CMakeLists and package.xml to work in ROS 2. Finally, fix...

Add alternative terrain data that is not in terrain_models

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In `terrain_planner_benchmark`, there is a reliance on the `terrain_models` package. https://github.com/ethz-asl/terrain-navigation/blob/df9497b9f0b09e1b5926f18e86dc97aa2d52d1cf/terrain_planner_benchmark/launch/test_ompl_rrt_circle.launch#L10 From what I remember, these can't be released open source due to licensing. Can we find open source terrain...

# Purpose We're going to move ardupilot_gz to treat `main` as rolling, then have stable `humble` and `jazzy` branches. Between the branches, we expect minimal changes, and will plan to...

Add 3D Lidar to iris for usage with Bonxai mapping example

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# Background As explained in this Bonxai demo, the ardupilot_gz `iris_lidar.launch.py` assumes a 2D lidar and it must be modified. https://github.com/tejalbarnwal/3D-planning-with-bonxai We'd like to add 3D lidar support that works...