ENH: Discrete and Continuous Controllers

[Malmahrouqi3]

Pull request type

• Code changes (bugfix, features)

Checklist

• Tests for the changes have been added (if needed)
• Docs have been reviewed and added / updated
• Lint (black rocketpy/ tests/) has passed locally
• All tests (pytest tests -m slow --runslow) have passed locally
• CHANGELOG.md has been updated (if relevant)

Current behavior

#274

New behavior

Tested on the Airbrakes Example (docs/user/airbrakes.rst)

(Discrete 10 Hz sampling)
Apogee State
Apogee Time: 22.776 s
Apogee Altitude: 4302.839 m (ASL) | 2902.839 m (AGL)
Apogee Freestream Speed: 15.591 m/s
Apogee X position: -3.800 m
Apogee Y position: 465.700 m
Apogee latitude: 32.9944416°
Apogee longitude: -106.9750387°

Maximum altitude: 2902.84 m
Vertical velocity at apogee: -0.0000 m/s

(Discrete 100 Hz sampling)
Apogee State
Apogee Time: 22.777 s
Apogee Altitude: 4302.992 m (ASL) | 2902.992 m (AGL)
Apogee Freestream Speed: 15.592 m/s
Apogee X position: -3.802 m
Apogee Y position: 465.736 m
Apogee latitude: 32.9944419°
Apogee longitude: -106.9750388°

Maximum altitude: 2902.99 m
Vertical velocity at apogee: -0.0000 m/s

(Continuous inf sampling)
Apogee State
Apogee Time: 25.886 s
Apogee Altitude: 4705.476 m (ASL) | 3305.476 m (AGL)
Apogee Freestream Speed: 20.662 m/s
Apogee X position: -5.541 m
Apogee Y position: 588.778 m
Apogee latitude: 32.9955483°
Apogee longitude: -106.9750574°

Maximum altitude: 3305.48 m
Vertical velocity at apogee: -0.0000 m/s

Breaking change

• Yes
• No

Additional information

There is no node creation for continuous controllers hence this step is skipped in flight.py.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 30.00000% with 7 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 81.02%. Comparing base (9cf3dd4) to head (31d80b9).
⚠️ Report is 49 commits behind head on develop.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
rocketpy/rocket/rocket.py	25.00%	6 Missing ⚠️
rocketpy/simulation/flight.py	50.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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