The failsafe from rng height to baro height should occur after a reset
to baro triggered by the controlHeightSensorTimeouts function and not in
the fusion selector.
Until now, the EKF was fusing baro measurements between rng updates if
the range finder ODR was slower than the EKF update rate. This is not
the case anymore as the height reset occurs after 5 seconds.
The unit test has been extended to show this behavior.
- extract motion checks performed on ground
- move all non-timing check to controlOpticalFlowFusion. This simplifies and standardirzes the setOpticalFlowData function. Furthermore, in some cases (SITL, PX4Flow), the dt is forced to 0 when the quality is 0 (which is usual on ground) so the ekf needs to ignore those values on ground to initialize properly the flow fusion.
- add filter convergence test
- move check for dt time max in setOpticalFlowData
- in the simulator, do not update dt as this is the sensor integration
period.
This is how it is also done in ekf2_main. Otherwise, this leads to
multiple integration of the same IMU data due to asynchronous sensor
updates triggering a prediction step between IMU updates.
Fix unit tests that broke because of this fix
The `_deadreckon_time_exceeded` flag is used in
`local_position_is_valid()`. This means that
`_params.valid_timeout_max` after startup, in my observed case 5
seconds, the local position switche from valid to invalid and then after
a while back to valid again.
With this fix, the local position is flagged invalid from boot and gets validated after the first aiding event.
Co-authored-by: Julian Oes <julian@oes.ch>
* EKF: Improve covariance prediction stability
Eliminates collapse of vertical velocity state variance due to rounding errors that can occur under some operating conditions.
* EKF: Fix typo
* test: Fix initialisation test cases
Provide sufficient time for variances to stabilise and fix calculation of reference quaternion for alignment.
* test: Allow for accumulated rounding error in IMU sampling test
* test: Allow sufficient time for quaternion variances to reduce after initial alignment
* test: Increase allowance for tilt alignment delay and inertial nav errors
* test: Increase allowance for tilt alignment delay and inertial nav errors
* adpat reset velocity test
* test: update change indication file
* test: Adjust tests to handle alignment time and prediction errors
* README.md: Add documentation for change indicator test
* Fix comment
* Ekf wrapper for testing
Add utility function for accessing information in the ekf object
* Add step function for Gps sensor
* Add RangeFinder and Flow to simulated sensors
* Add first fusion logic tests
* Add units to function name
* Use EXPECT_TRUE
* Adding missing qualifiers
* Improve EXPECT_ calls
* Improve naming