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
added ability to alternate normalization and drift correction. Not fully implemented, needs further testing.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2691 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
Added three constants for kp_rollpitch, (high, med -default, low)
Functionally equivalent to prior version.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@2550 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
Most other consumers of the accel/gyro values should be asking us for them anyway. At that point, what they are getting are the values we sampled here.
git-svn-id: https://arducopter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@1376 f9c3cf11-9bcb-44bc-f272-b75c42450872
Andrew Tridgell
Doug Weibel
Wenyao Xie
Jason Short
Jason Short
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