Fluctus version changelog
update 1.5 20/09/24
Fluctus Control Center
- Added support for Europe 868Mhz frequency band
- Proximity channel scanning (experimental)
- Fluctus ID displayed in Live telemetry UI header
- Remembering last channel spec selection
- Logging all incoming packets by default
Fluctus firmware
- Automatic channel switching (increment) on bootup if the current one is already occupied
- Reorganized and optimized radio packet
- Displaying UID on power up
- Better radio reception handling
- Added support for Europe 868Mhz frequency band
- Default channel switched to Alpha
- Default pyro firing time set to 0.5 seconds
- Faster bootup
- inFreefall now false after apogee
patch 1.4b 05/09/24
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: USB not refreshing correctly after idling for too long
update 1.4 13/08/24
Fluctus Control Center
- Added support for the new Steady communication protocol
- Minor UI tweaking (main commands buttons)
Fluctus firmware
- Recognition for Steady radio call sign
- Added support for new bootloader
- Radio receive gain boosted
update 1.3 24/03/24
Fluctus Control Center
- Major UI changes, finally with scalable windows
- Integrated rules logic examples (dual deploy, staging…)
- Blackbox viewer motor’s thrust characterisation tool
- Blackbox viewer rocket’s aero drag coefficient calculation tool
- Ground station’s received radio packets logging
- Telemetry speaker enhanced
- Intervals added for flight data csv export
- Pre-loaded defaults in configurator
- HiCont panel removed
- Blackbox viewer touchdown speed estimation revised
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: shifted blackbox rule flag index
- Better barometric speed measurement using FIR filtering
- More consistent apogee detection from flight to flight
- RunCam™ camera remote control feature
- More reliable touchdown detection
- Undervoltage lockout at power-up removed
- Non-detailled blackbox mode removed
patch 1.2b 28/01/24
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: DPI scaling problem with some Windows installations
update 1.2 06/01/24
Fluctus Control Center
- Product call sign handling
- Better error handling
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: Touchdown sometimes detected after apogee when flying over the barometer range
- Radio product call sign
- Slightly revised flight sequencer’s flags
- Blackbox now log the instantaneous non-filtered battery input voltage
update 1.1 07/12/23
Fluctus Control Center
- Blackbox viewer’s overview touchdown speed tuned
- Blackbox viewer graph’s true horizontal axis value displayed
- In-app update notification
Fluctus firmware
- CRITICAL: Better gyrometer comm. error handling
- Sensor fusion simplified
- High altitude barometric atmosphere model implemented (NASA GRC’s)
- Gyrometer sensing range set to ±2000°/s
- Apogee velocity lockout set to 20m/s
- Blackbox data list slightly revised
- Default countdown set to 0s
release 1.0 16/11/23
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: Ambient temperature not displaying in BBV’s overview tab
- BUGFIX: Max roll rate absolute value in BBV’s overview tab
- Thrust measurement and vehicle configuration removed
- Safer firmware updater
- UI changes
- Better error handling
- BlackBox Viewer hotspots overview
- Fluctus Tools (USB) for debugging and quality check
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: Pyro continuity hallucination completly fixed
- Thrust measurement and vehicle configuration removed
- Touchdown detection tuned
- BlackBox data list revised
- Apogee detection velocity lockout set to 50m/s and 70° angle
- Better sensor fault handling
- BlackBox ending flag and code
- Product identification
- Better dead-reckoning apogee detection
- Barometer valid range pushed up to 20km
- Improved sensor fusion
- Safer radio channel handling
- Airstart detection lockout at 10m/s
- Improved accelerometers data combinaison
- Pyro firing with delay now wait for complete fire before being resetable
- Quality checking tool
Notes:
This is the first public stable version.
patch 0.5b 16/10/23
Fluctus Control Center
- CRITICAL BUGFIX: Unconditional rules were ignored if previously configured with the OR operator
- BUGFIX: DPI scaling problem with some Windows installations
- BUGFIX: Some rules were editable in the BlackBox viewer when they shouldn’t be
update 0.5 15/10/23
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: Error when loading a configuration file
- BUGFIX: Radio output power always set to LOW when low power mode was enabled
- RuleSystem improved ! (up to 4 conditions and 3 ouputs with AND/OR operator)
- BlackBox viewer’s graphs are now way more convenient to use
- 3D rocket trajectory review added !
- Configuration structure optimized
- Several UI changes
- Better error handling
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: “Pyrostate” variables are now less meaningless
- RuleSystem improved ! (up to 4 conditions and 3 ouputs with AND/OR operator)
- Smarter ready for flight state recognition
- Accelerometers data are now combined for enhanced accuracy
- Battery undervoltage protection added
- Configuration structure optimized
- Better error/versioning handling
- Serveral UI improvements
update 0.4 17/09/23
Fluctus Control Center
- EXPERIMENTAL: Illusion system for replaying sensor data from a blackbox file on Fluctus (for testing/debugging purposes)
- Pyro fire wait delay implemented ! (in pyro’s rule out mode)
- New firmware updater !
- F.C.C. can now send useful data to our databases
- Several UI changes
- Better error handling
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: The “altitude” variable is now correctly updated in IDLE mode
- BUGFIX: Prevent thrust measurement failure due to incorrect parameters
- BUGFIX: Screen is slightly brighter
- Pyro fire wait delay implemented !
- Each unit now has a unique ID associated with it
- Minor UI changes
update 0.3 18/08/23
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: BlackBox viewer “touchdown speed” now correct
- Many UI changes and corrections
- Better error handling
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: BlackBox recording is more stable
- BUGFIX: Battery voltage filtering is now operating and tuned
- BUGFIX: No more pyrotechnic continuity hallucination
- Barometer filtering tuned (and corrected sampling rate)
- Barometric speed filtering tuned (more reactive)
- Apogee detection speed threshold tuned to +0 meters
- UI changes and corrections
- Drag and thrust calculation now have angle lockout to 70°
- Better sensor error handling
- Better apogee detection for flight above the barometer range (+9km altitude)
update 0.2 13/08/23
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: Realtime graph not resetting correctly
- BUGFIX: More robust configuration upload and download (far fewer transmission errors)
- Optimized configuration upload and download (faster)
- Realtime graph improvements (colors, permanent full scale buffer)
- Ready for flight in one click
- Blackbox’s manual start will directly start recording
- Latest firmware updates files are directly integrated in the software
- Minor UI changes
Fluctus firmware
- BUGFIX: Several blackbox start/stop are now possible
- BUGFIX: Gyrometer roll rate value not consistent
- Launch detection backup at 50 meters above ground
- Enhanced buzzer (louder)
- Better handling of burnout/airstarts transitions
- Burnout lockout set to 5 meters D.R.
- Minor UI changes
- Optimized booting (faster)
- Optimized configuration upload and download (faster)
- Blackbox items changes
- Blackbox and flag optimization for higher frequencies
- Overall optimizations for greater time stability
- Target tick frequency increased from 25 to 40hz !
- Barometer filtering tuned
- Barometric speed calculator tuned
- Touchdown detection tuned
- Battery voltmeter now features filtering
- Ready for flight in one click
- Blackbox’s autostart forced, but recording can be triggered earlier manually in F.C.C.
patch 0.1b 04/08/23
Fluctus Control Center
- BUGFIX: Software crash when a non-numerical value is selected in the Realtime graph
- BUGFIX: Software exit if you remain in a dialog box for too long (Steady USB timeout)
- BUGFIX: Gps status not refreshing in HiCont panel
release 0.1 29/07/23
Fluctus Control Center
- First version of F.C.C.
Fluctus firmware
- First version of the Fluctus firmware
Notes:
These were the versions installed/delivered on betatest hardware hw0.10.