in_motion is not a good name now it is also used for the compass
The error_course and heading component values don't need to be part of
the DCM object, they can be on the stack to reduce the memory usage a bit
When we first get a compass reading or we first start motion we need
to setup the DCM matrix with the right yaw. This uses
rotation_matrix_from_euler() to get a DCM matrix corresponding to our
current roll/pitch, but with the correct yaw
when we get a bad DCM error we can recover a matrix corresponding to
the current attitude, making it more likely that the aircraft will be
able to recover
The asin() in the pitch calculation can only take values between -1
and 1. This change ensures that the value is in range, and if it isn't
then we force a normalization. If that fails we reset the matrix
The sqrt() costs about 44usec on a 2560, which is small enough for us
not to worry about the speed.
This also changes the range of values where we declare a blowup to
much less likely, which means we can cope with larger delta_t glitches
This is a fix for an interesting bug when a DCM matrix reset was added to the ground start. This bug only showed up if (A) a ground start were performed after an air start or due to use of the "Calibrate Gryo" action, (B) if the current orientation were sufficiently different from 0/0/0, and (C.) if the particular magnetometer had sufficiently large offsets. Why did resetting the DCM matrix to 0/0/0 pitch/roll/yaw at ground start cause a bug? The magnetometer offset nulling determines the proper offsets for the magnetometer by comparing the observed change in the magnetic field vector with the expected change due to rotation as calculated from the rotation in the DCM matrix. This comparison is made at 10Hz, and then filtered with a weight based on the amount of rotation to estimate the offsets. Normally it would take considerable time at normal in-flight rotation rates for the offset estimate to converge.
If a DCM matrix reset occurs when the offset nulling algorithm is up and running, the algorithm sees the DCM reset as a instantaneous rotation, however the magnetic field vector did not change at all. Under certain conditions the algorithm would interpret this as indicating that the offset(s) should be very large. Since the "rotation" could also have been large the filter weighting would be large and it was possible for a large erroneous estimate of the offset(s) to be made based on this single (bad) data point.
To fix this bug methods were added to the compass object to start and stop the offset nulling algorithm. Further, when the algorithm is started, it is set up to get fresh samples. The DCM matrix reset method now calls these new methods to stop the offset nulling before resetting the matrix, and resume after the matrix has been reset.
The drift correction integrator limit previously was near/at the gyro saturation limit. If we have that much drift there is a serious hardware problem. 30 degrees/second is arbitrary but should handle all temperature variation, etc.
This should aid in recovery if we loose the AHRS solution and have to force to initial orientation. Also removed some old commented out code moved to the IMU object
Andrew Tridgell
rmackay9
Doug Weibel
Wenyao Xie
Jason Short
Michael Oborne
James Goppert
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Amilcar Lucas
Olivier ADLER