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Update documentation with procedure for discovering hidden CAN boards #322

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21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions docs/icub_firmware/firmwareupdater/firmwareupdater.md
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#### Discover hidden CAN boards
This section describe the procedure that should be used when any `CAN` board, connected to a specific `ETH` board, cannot be discovered even if the `ETH` board has been set to the `maintenance` status and the user is sure that there's no hardware issues related to the cabling.
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Here follows the step-by-step procedure (which is also shown by a video at the end of the section):
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- Supposed that the you have already tried to set the specific `ETH` board in the `maintenance` status and triggered the `Discover` button without finding any `CAN` board connected to the `ETH` board, proceed as illustarted by the following steps
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- In a terminal type `FirmwareUpdater -a` (or `FirmwareUpdater --admin`)
- Select the `ETH` driver in the devices list
- Click on `Discover`
- Select the `ETH` board under which you want discover `CAN` boards by checking its checkbox
- If the `ETH` board shows under `Status` the value `application (IDLE)` press the button `Force ETH Maintenance` and wait that the board has changed the `Status` value to `maintenance`
- **INTERNAL NOTE 1**: for the following two operations it is important that you do them fast, just one after the other, in a time interval of around `5 seconds`
- Click on `Restart ETH Board(s)`
- Just after it click on `Discover`
- **INTERNAL NOTE 2**: these 2 steps are fundamental for sending the discovery signal while the `CAN` boards are booting meaning that, at the restart, the boards which were not discoverable (`strain2` in the example case) are in the status `canBootloader` and not `canApplication`. Forcing the reset is important because this will restart the `ETH` boards removing the power supply from the `CAN` boards and giving it back just a the restart. The discovery command should be sent in that moment since it will remain in the bootloader of the `CAN` board making it discoverable at the end of the restarting procedure
- Update the `CAN` board as usual


<img src ="../img/procedure-discover-hidden-can-boards.gif" height = 480px>


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### Access Strain/Strain2/Strain2c calibration data
In order to acces the GUI containing the calibration data for F/T sensors do the following.

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