- 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 fixes the cases where the yaw message from the GNSS receiver would
take more time than the vel/pos. The estimator should wait and not
immediately fall back to an other aiding source after 5sec.
If it never comes, it will never fall back, but this is ok since the
user wants to fly with GPS aiding an not with something else.
If the user selects GPS yaw fusion but that there is no GPS yaw data in
the GPS message or if the fusion is rejected for some time, the GPS yaw
data is declared faulty and the fusion is stopped to allow an other
source of yaw aiding to start.
* Support vision velocity expressed in body frame
* Use switch statement for vision velocity frame
* Robustify vision velocity frame test
* Increase lower bound on vision velocity noise to 0.05 m/s
* EKF: centralize range finder tilt check
* Ekf-control: do not double check for terrain estimate validity
isRangeAidSuitable can only return true if the terrain estimate is valid
so there is no need for an additional check
* range_finder_checks: restructure the checks to avoid early returns
There is now only one clear path that can lead to the validity being
true.
Furthermore, if the _rng_hgt_valid is true, we can trust it and we don't
need for additional checks such as tilt.
The case where we need to provide fake measurements because the drone is
on the ground and the range finder data is bad is already handled
in "controlHeightFusion" so there is no need to hack the range finder
checks with that.
* Add Sensor and SensorRangeFinder classes
The purpose is to encapsulate the checks for each sensor in a dedicated
class with the same interface
* SensorRangeFinder: encapsulate in estimator::sensor namespace
* EKF: rename _sensor_rng to _range_sensor
* Range checks: include limits in valid range
* RangeChecks: update comment in the continuity checks
* RangeChecks: move more low-level checks in functions
Also move setTilt out of the terrain estimator, this is anyway protected internally
to not compute cos/sin if the parameter did not change.
* Sensor: remove unused virtual functions
Those are not required yet but can still be added later
* SensorRangeFinder: re-organise member variables
Also rename getRangeToEarth to getCosTilt
* SensorRangeFinder: split setSensorTilt and setCosMaxTilt functions
* SensorRangeFinder: Add a few unit tests
- good data
- tilt exceeded
- max range exceeded
* SensorRangeFinder: set hysteresis in us instead of ms
* SensorRangeFinder: Add more tests
* SensorRangeFinder: update continuity, hysteresis and stuck tests
* SensorRangeFinder: rename variables
* SensorRangeFinder: get rid of "delayed" specification
From the SensorRangeFinder class point of view, it's not relevant to
know if the data is delayed or not
* SensorRangeFinder: move time_last_valid out of stuck check
* SensorRangeFinder: rename file names to sensor_range_finder
* SensorRangeFinder: address Kamil's comments
* SensorRangeFinder: Add more tilt tests
* SensorRangeFinder: store current tilt offset
This is to avoid recomputing cos/sin functions at each loop
* EKF: Enable GPS flight without magnetometer
Enables takeoff in a non-GPS flight mode with mag fusion type set to MAG_FUSE_TYPE_NONE. After sufficient movement the EKF will reset the yaw tot he EKF-GSF estimate. After that GPS fusion will commence.
* EKF: Fix unconstrained yaw and yaw variance growth when on ground
* EKF: Ensure first yaw alignment can't be blocked
* EKF: Increase yaw variance limit allowed for alignment
Flight test data indicates that an uncertainty value of 15 deg still provides a reliable yaw estimate and enables an earlier alignment/reset if required.
* EKF: Remove unexecutable code
* EKF: Restructure heading fusion
* EKF: parameterise quarter variance check and retune default value
* EKF: Pass by reference instead of pointer
* EKF: Clarify reset logic
* EKF: Remove incorrect setting of mag field alignment flag
* EKF: Non-functional tidy up
* EKF: Fix non-use of function argument
The updateQuaternion function was using the _heading_innovation class variable instead of setting it using the innovation argument.
* EKF: Fix undefined variable
* EKF: Use single precision atan2
* EKF: remove unnecessary timer reset and unwanted execution of reset function
* EKF: Don't declare a mag fault when non-use is user selected
Doing so produces unnecessary user alerts.
Daniel Agar
Mathieu Bresciani
Paul Riseborough
Claudio Micheli
kamilritz
Paul Riseborough