Added EKF filter health status reporting, added dynamic in-air reset.

src/modules/uORB/objects_common.cpp

@@ -193,3 +193,6 @@ ORB_DEFINE(esc_status, struct esc_status_s);
 
 #include "topics/encoders.h"
 ORB_DEFINE(encoders, struct encoders_s);
+
+#include "topics/estimator_status.h"
+ORB_DEFINE(estimator_status, struct estimator_status_report);

src/modules/uORB/topics/estimator_status.h

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/****************************************************************************
+ *
+ *   Copyright (c) 2014 PX4 Development Team. All rights reserved.
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+
+/**
+ * @file estimator_status.h
+ * Definition of the estimator_status_report uORB topic.
+ *
+ * @author Lorenz Meier <lm@inf.ethz.ch>
+ */
+
+#ifndef ESTIMATOR_STATUS_H_
+#define ESTIMATOR_STATUS_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include "../uORB.h"
+
+/**
+ * @addtogroup topics
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Estimator status report.
+ *
+ * This is a generic status report struct which allows any of the onboard estimators
+ * to write the internal state to the system log.
+ *
+ */
+struct estimator_status_report {
+
+	/* NOTE: Ordering of fields optimized to align to 32 bit / 4 bytes - change with consideration only   */
+
+	uint64_t timestamp;			/**< Timestamp in microseconds since boot */
+	float states[32];			/**< Internal filter states */
+	float n_states;				/**< Number of states effectively used */
+	bool states_nan;			/**< If set to true, one of the states is NaN */
+	bool covariance_nan;			/**< If set to true, the covariance matrix went NaN */
+	bool kalman_gain_nan;			/**< If set to true, the Kalman gain matrix went NaN */
+	bool states_out_of_bounds;		/**< If set to true, one of the states is out of bounds */
+
+};
+
+/**
+ * @}
+ */
+
+/* register this as object request broker structure */
+ORB_DECLARE(estimator_status);
+
+#endif