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.
we now pass all channels through at 50Hz if the main loop stops
running, regardless of why. This gives us a reasonable failsafe, as
long as the low level RC library is still working, and interrupts
don't get completely disabled.
* Wire.begin removed from AP_Baro_BMP085::init()
* SPI.begin removed from AP_Baro_MS5611::init()
* SPI.begin removed from AP_InertialSensor_MPU6000::hardware_init()
* Both Wire.begin and SPI.begin added very early in init_ardupilot in
ArduCopter/system.pde and ArduPlane/system.pde
This commit is somewhat temporary as I have come up with a better scheme and will be modifying this. Just making this commit in case I need to roll back
Andrew Tridgell
Doug Weibel
Pat Hickey
Pat Hickey
Amilcar Lucas