This enables the EKF to use an additional NE velocity measurement. This can be used to improve position hold stability when landing using a beacon system for positioning by fusing the beacon velocity estimates.
Apply a dead-zone to the vertical position innovation if using baro for height and if in the ground effect region during and just after takeoff.
Method needs to be activated externally.
Turns off automatically after 10 seconds or if specified height gained.
Fuse external vision data using a relative position odometry method when GPS data is also being used and enable both GPOS and EV data to be fused on the same time step.
Everywhere where KHP is used, it is first completely reset, thus making
it unnecessary to keep it as a class member.
This saves 2.3KB RAM.
Stack sizes don't need changing, since there is already a function
Ekf::predictCovariance(), which needs around 3KB of stack and is called
close to where the fuse* functions are called.
Combines the forced symmetry, variance limiting and zeroing of covariances for unwanted states in the one function.
This ensures a consistent correction is applied after every covariance prediction or correction.
This allows the filter to adapt to variations in GPs quality.
The range of adjustment in observation noise is limited to the range between a lower limit set by the GPS observation noise parameter and an upper limit set by the no-aiding observation noise.
A larger position uncertainty is required when flying without GPS to reduce tilt attitude estimation errors caused by vehicle manoeuvring. This needs to be tuneable to allow optimisation for different use cases (e.g. outdoor vs indoor).
Fix bug where noise parameters were not being squared when calculating the observation variance.
Use GPS reported speed accuracy to set velocity observation noise and use the parameter to set the minimum.
Set conservative defaults as a baseline for tuning
Add a missing parameter for magnetometer observation noise.
Correct error in definition of magnetic heading observations noise (previous parameter defined the variance directly, not the noise).
Scale vertical GPS noise to allow for average EPV to EPH ratio.
Update documentation and display names for consistency.
Daniel Agar
Paul Riseborough
CarlOlsson
Roman
Beat Küng
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