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MAVLink Blank Message

Create blank MAVLink message bus by specifying payload information and MAVLink message type

Since R2020b

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Libraries:
UAV Toolbox / MAVLink

Description

The MAVLink Blank Message block creates a Simulink® nonvirtual bus representing a MAVLink packet based on the specified Message ID, System ID, Component ID, Sequence, Payload information, and MAVLink message type.

Payload information is another nonvirtual bus within the MAVLink packet bus. The block creates Simulink buses for the MAVLink packet and the corresponding message that work with MAVLink Serializer and MAVLink Deserializer blocks. On each sample hit, the block outputs a blank or zero signal for the payload for the designated message type.

All elements of the bus other than the Message ID, System ID, and Component ID are initialized to 0. The only exception is the mavlink_version field in the HEARTBEAT message of the common.xml dialect which is initialized to 3.

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Output

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MAVLink packet, returned as a Simulink nonvirtual bus. The bus contains the fields Message ID, System ID, Component ID, Sequence, and Payload. The Payload is another nonvirtual bus corresponding to the MAVLink message type that you selected in the MAVLink message type parameter. The Message ID is initialized to the numeric value of the selected MAVLink message ID. The System ID and Component ID are initialized to the corresponding System ID and Component ID parameters.

Data Types: bus

Parameters

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Source for specifying the MAVLink message definition XML name, specified as one of the following:

  • Select from standard MAVLink dialects - Use this option to select a definition XML among the 12 commonly used message definition XML names listed in the MAVLink dialect parameter.

  • Specify your own - Enter an XML name in the text box that appears for the MAVLink dialect parameter.

MAVLink message definition file (.xml) to parse for MAVLink messages, specified as a string.

If the MAVLink dialect source parameter is set to Select from standard MAVLink dialects, you need to select a message definition among the available message definition names from the drop down list.

If the MAVLink dialect source parameter is set to Specify your own, you need to specify the message definition file (.xml) that is on current MATLAB path or you can provide the full path of the XML file.

MAVLink protocol version that is used to serialize and deserialize the MAVLink messages.

MAVLink message, specified as a string. Click Select to select from a full list of available MAVLink messages that depends on the values that you selected for MAVLink dialect and MAVLink version parameters.

Data Types: string

MAVLink system ID, specified as a positive integer between 1 and 255. MAVLink protocol only supports up to 255 systems. Each UAV has its own system ID, but multiple UAVs can be considered as one system.

Data Types: uint8

MAVLink component ID, specified as a positive integer between 1 and 255.

Data Types: uint8

The default value (inf) indicates that the block output never changes. If you use this value, the simulation and code generation are faster by eliminating the need to recompute the block output. For other values, the block outputs a new blank message at each interval of Sample time.

For more information, see Specify Sample Time (Simulink) (Simulink).

Data Types: uint8

Tips

You can change the values for the desired fields in Payload bus by using a Bus Assignment block and then pass the MAVLink packet bus to the MAVLink Serializer block as an input.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2020b

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