this prevents the EKF origin on different cores from being initialised
to different values. A common value is stored in the frontend and used
by a core if it doesn't have an origin
Fix rounding error bug preventing state from updating after initial convergence.
Decouple GPS reference height from published EKf origin height.
Add bitmask parameter to control update and publishing of GPS reference height.
Enables simultaneous use of GPS and optical flow data with automatic fallback to relative position mode if GPS is lost and automatic switch-up to absolute position status if GPS gained/re-gained.
If the GPS receiver was disconnected and no data received, then then the gpsGoodToAlign check did not get a chance to run and becasue it was previously true the EKF would switch back into aiding.
This prevents this by ensuring that gpsGoodToAlign defaults to false when the check is not being performed.
An additional check has also been dded to ensure that there is GPS data to fuse before we declare ready to use GPS.
Switching in and out of aiding modes was being performed in more than one place and was using two variables.
The reversion out of GPS mode due to prolonged loss of GPS was not working.
This consolidates the logic and ensures that PV_AidingMode is only changed by the setAidingMode function.
The filter status logic calculations were being repeated every time the get function was called.
The logic is now updated once per filter update step and a separate get function added
If we start GPS aiding before the gyro bias variances have reduced, glitches on the GPS can cause attitude disturbances that degrade flight accuracy during early flight.
Co-variances were being re-zeroed after being set. This meant that the initial declination learning was sensitive to measurement errors which could result in poor initial yaw accuracy.
Remember the mag bias and earth field states learned during flight when the vehicle lands.
This improves performance for vehicles that do multiple flight on one power cycle
The toilet bowling check during early flight has been removed. This check caused problems where bad compass calibration was the cause of the toilet bowling and resetting to the compass was a bad option. The handling of simultaneous failed mag and velocity innovations is already handled outside the EKF by the failsafe.
A check for yaw errors due to a ground based magnetic anomaly has been introduced.
The logic for in-flight yaw and magnetic field resets has been cleaned up and variable names improved.
Splits in-flight yaw alignment completed status into separate yaw and magnetic field flags.
Reduce the number of places where decisions to perform a yaw and field reset are made.
Don't perform a reset unless there is is data in the buffer
Don't use 3-axis fusion if the field states still need to be reset.
When starting 3-axis fusion request a reset if not previously performed.
Ensure magnetometer and GPs heading resets are alwasy perfomred with data at teh correct time horizon.
The commencement of airspeed fusion could cause pitch errors due to small variances and large innovations. This issue is addressed by the following changes:
1) The airspeed measurement is used to set wind states to a value that reduces initial innovations.
2) The wind state variances are set to values that better reflect the wind speed uncertainty
Andrew Tridgell
Michael du Breuil
Paul Riseborough
Arjun Vinod
Tom Pittenger
Peter Barker
priseborough
Randy Mackay
murata
Mathieu OTHACEHE
Jonathan Challinger
Ricardo de Almeida Gonzaga