Introducing Emitting Objects

[kmeids]

Describe the feature

Is your feature request related to a problem?
yes, currently OSI does not support describing the state of street lights (one type of emitting objects).

Under osi3::StationaryObject::Classification , one can identify the type of a stationary object to be a street light by setting the type to TYPE_REFLECTIVE_STRUCTURE, which is very limiting and does not fulfill the above mentioned use case.

Describe the solution you would like

Throughout the discussions in the Sensor Modeling and Architecture working groups, we came up with the following proposal to use as a starting point:

By following the approach used for MovingObjects, the proposal consist of two main parts:

1. Extend the osi3::StationaryObject::Classification::Type
   to include TYPE_EMITTING_OBJECT; defined as an object capable of emitting electromagnetic waves

2. Extend osi3::StationaryObject to include osi3::StationaryObject::EmittingObjectAttributes that will include the following:
   2.1 wave_length_range, Unit[nm or m] ?
   2.2 intensity or power, @PhRosenberger to provide a suggestion.

Describe the backwards compatibility

Backwards compatibility is maintained as long as using TYPE_REFLECTIVE_STRUCTURE is deprecated (only for using it to describe street lights, i.e. as stated in the type definition) and its documentation is updated for the V4.0 release.