The previous method resulted in data incest and fusion of predicted airspeed on every EKF internal time step.
This was not apparent during flight where the vehicle was turning, but during long straight legs did not constrain along track drift.
Make it user selectable.
Remove potential for a race condition between decisions based on latest data and the EKF fusion processing which operates on a delayed time horizon. This is achieved by preventing data entering the buffer if awaiting checks to pass ensuring that no EKF fusion time horizon processes can use data that hasn't passed checks.
Log the waitingForGpsChecks class variable
These changes enable the EKF to use the last observable wind velocity vector estimate to synthesise an airspeed measurement if operating without an airspeed sensor and when all other measurement types that can constrain velocoty drift are lost. This enables the EKF to use dead reckoning to continue after loss of GPS when there is no air speed sensor fitted and without the need to set a default airspeed value.
The logic used to fuse a default airspeed value has also been cleaned up and the call to FuseAirSpeed() from inside SelectBetaDragFusion() has been removed.
AP_NavEKF3: Fix error in default airspeed observation variance
AP_NavEKF3: Enable shadow fusion of airspeed when sensor is disabled
clang reports this could be a problem when compiling under some EABIs. Remove it from most places as it is just noise, replace with class where we want to avoid including Location.h
Innovations and innovation test ratios will still be calculated and reported for an unhealthy sensor, but the EKF states wnd covariance matrix will not be modified.
AP_Logger.h is a nexus of includes; while this is being improved over
time, there's no reason for the library headers to include AP_Logger.h
as the logger itself is access by singleton and the structures are in
LogStructure.h
This necessitated moving The PID_Info structure out of AP_Logger's
namespace. This cleans up a pretty nasty bit - that structure is
definitely not simply used for logging, but also used to pass pid
information around to controllers!
There are a lot of patches in here because AP_Logger.h, acting as a
nexus, was providing transitive header file inclusion in many (some
unlikely!) places.
Fixes bug that prevents the vertical velocity being reset to the GPS if the position aiding has already timed out and improves sensitivity of the bad IMU data check.
this processes GPS yaw with its own timestamp and as a separated step
from fusing position and velocity. This makes the yaw time handling
more accurate as yaw for moving baseline GPS comes in as a separate
piece of data from the position and velocity
this shifts EKF_origin to the current location at 1Hz, while leaving
public_origin alone. All output APIs and logging are relative to
public_origin.
The effect of this change is to remove the distortion caused by a
spherical earth, which allows the EKF to operate without errors at
very long distances from the public_origin.
Enable default airspeed variance to be specified externally
Improve control of sideslip fusion
Don't modify non wind states unnecessarily when using synthesised air data measurements
Peter Barker
Paul Riseborough
Paul Riseborough
Tatsuya Yamaguchi
Stephen Dade
Josh Henderson
Randy Mackay
Pierre Kancir
Andrew Tridgell