EKF: Improve protection against severe IMU accel errors

Use vertical velocity and position innovation failure to detect bad accelerometer data caused by clipping or aliasing which can cause large vertical acceleration errors and loss of height estimation. When bad accel data is detected:

1) Inhibit accelerometer bias learning
2) Force fusion of vertical velocity and height data
3) Increase accelerometer process noise
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Paul Riseborough
2017-04-07 08:47:13 +10:00
parent a1a5734443
commit 2f2ac5be43
5 changed files with 37 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -154,11 +154,13 @@ void Ekf::predictCovariance()
// convert rate of change of accelerometer bias (m/s**3) as specified by the parameter to an expected change in delta velocity (m/s) since the last update
float d_vel_bias_sig = dt * dt * math::constrain(_params.accel_bias_p_noise, 0.0f, 1.0f);
// inhibit learning of imu acccel bias if the manoeuvre levels are too high to protect against the effect of sensor nonlinearities
// inhibit learning of imu acccel bias if the manoeuvre levels are too high to protect against the effect of sensor nonlinearities or bad accel data is detected
float alpha = 1.0f - math::constrain((dt / _params.acc_bias_learn_tc), 0.0f, 1.0f);
_ang_rate_mag_filt = fmax(_imu_sample_delayed.delta_ang.norm(), alpha * _ang_rate_mag_filt);
_accel_mag_filt = fmax(_imu_sample_delayed.delta_vel.norm(), alpha * _accel_mag_filt);
if (_ang_rate_mag_filt > dt * _params.acc_bias_learn_gyr_lim || _accel_mag_filt > dt * _params.acc_bias_learn_acc_lim) {
if (_ang_rate_mag_filt > dt * _params.acc_bias_learn_gyr_lim
|| _accel_mag_filt > dt * _params.acc_bias_learn_acc_lim
|| _bad_vert_accel_detected) {
// store the bias state variances to be reinstated later
if (!_accel_bias_inhibit) {
_prev_dvel_bias_var(0) = P[13][13];
@@ -232,6 +234,10 @@ void Ekf::predictCovariance()
float gyro_noise = math::constrain(_params.gyro_noise, 0.0f, 1.0f);
daxVar = dayVar = dazVar = sq(dt * gyro_noise);
float accel_noise = math::constrain(_params.accel_noise, 0.0f, 1.0f);
if (_bad_vert_accel_detected) {
// increase accelerometer process noise if bad accel data is detected
accel_noise *= BADACC_BIAS_PNOISE_MULT;
}
dvxVar = dvyVar = dvzVar = sq(dt * accel_noise);
// predict the covariance