2022 M4 meta-issue

[caguero]

• Acoustic comms improvements [Aditya]
  • Packet collision : Acoustic comms : Packet collision timeout gazebosim/gz-sim#1755
  • Propagation model : Acoustic comms : Propagation model gazebosim/gz-sim#1793
• Improve battery model @marcoag (non-constant discharge rates)
• Environmental/science data refactor @arjo129
  • Integrate upstream plugin with lrauv app.
    • Add multichannel lookup for environment sensors. gazebosim/gz-sim#1814
  • Visualization
    • Tries to fix a scenario when a user sends a malformed point cloud gazebosim/gz-gui#494
    • Adds bounds retrieval for TimeVarying grid class. gazebosim/gz-math#508
• Remove/consolidate worlds @hidmic
  • Clean up lrauv_gazebo_plugins worlds #272
  • Update the wiki (See Unable to find or download file (gz sim buoyant_tethys.sdf) #274)
• Upstream DVL (re-targeted to Harmonic)
  • Add DVL specific messages gazebosim/gz-msgs#317
  • Add DopplerVelocityLog sensor gazebosim/gz-sensors#290
  • Add DopplerVelocityLogSystem plugin gazebosim/gz-sim#1804
  • Add some tests
• Example controller
  • Example controller for LRAUV gazebosim/gz-sim#1822
• Remove custom branch
• Hydro improvements @arjo129
  • Enable/Disable individual hydrodynamic components.
  • Cross Terms
    • Merge in fortress
    • Forward port to garden
    • Update lrauv params. Adds cross terms #278
  • Upstream plugin @marcoag
  • Force visualization
    • GUI
    • New link API
    • Rendering
    • Fix weird behaviour???
  • Refactor Hydrodynamics plugin to use EnvironmentalData Integrate currents with position lookups. #46
    • Allow using a CSV file to define currents for hydrodynamic system gazebosim/gz-sim#1839
• Review documentation (MBARI and osrf/LRAUV) @hidmic
• Review project infrastructure @hidmic
• Fix flaky tests @adityapande-1995

[arjo129]

Some other ideas:

• remove/consolidate worlds - There's a lot of duplication between test and system packages.
• example controller
• upstream dvl