this allows for external modules to be called at defined hook
locations in ArduPilot. The initial example is a module that consumes
the AHRS state, but this can be generalised to a wide variety of hooks
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.
Fixes bugs that prevented planes being able to reset yaw to GPS to recovery from takeoff with a bad magnetoemter.
1) If the velocity innovation check had not failed by the time the in-air transition occurred, then the yaw reset would not be performed
2) The velocity states were not being reset
3) The non fly-forward vehicle (copter) reset could occur first and effectively lock out the fly-forward vehicle (plane) yaw check.
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
Provide consistent overshoot of 5% across a wider range of time constants and prevent selection of larger time constants causing 'ringing' in the position and velocity outputs.
Fixes a problem observed in a flight log where rapid temperature change caused the accel bias to change faster than the EKF could keep up.
This allows the bias to be learned faster but with acceptable level of noise in the estimate
IMU data was being corrected before being used by the co-variance prediction, whereas the delta angles and velocities in the derivation were supposed to be uncorrected.
This patch creates separate variable for the corrected data
Volatile will provide protection to sequence re-ordering and guarantee
the variable is fetched from memory, but it won't provide the memory
barrier needed to ensure that no re-ordering (by either the compiler or
the CPU) will happen among other threads of execution
accessing the same variables.
For more info about this effect can be found on articles about
std::memory_order.
When using reserved(), the reserved memory cannot be read before it's
written, therefore we cannot update 'tail' until the caller of
reserved() is done writing.
To solve that, a method called 'commit()' was added so the caller can
inform that is done with the memory usage and is safe to update 'tail'.
The caller also has to inform the length that was actually written.
This solution was developed to work considering the usage context of
this class: 1 reader and 1 writer **only**.
Andrew Tridgell
Jonathan Challinger
Randy Mackay
Allan Matthew
Tom Pittenger
priseborough
Lucas De Marchi
Murilo Belluzzo