- a growing number of samples come into the backend with the time
already delayed (sensor's interrupt setting timestamp sample)
- if the incoming timestamp is already delayed then the new data checks
(relative to latest IMU) can be slightly wrong
- handle almost all timestamps and checks on delayed time horizon,
except for explicit checks of new samples
- isRecent() and isTimedOut() helpers use delayed time
- add new isNewestSampleRecent() used for checking the incoming
timestamp of the incoming (adjusted) data
Also remove the legacy "range aid" than can be achieved by setting the
height reference to range finder and the range finder control parameter
to "conditional".
Conditional range aiding cal also be set when the height reference isn't
the range finder. This prevents the ratchetting effect due to switching
between references.
Instead of having a single height source fused into the EKF and the
other ones "waiting" for a failure or the primary sensor, fuse all
sources in EKF2 at the same time. To prevent the sources from fighting against each
other, the "primary" source is set as reference and the other ones are
running a bias estimator in order to make all the secondary height
sources converge to the primary one.
If the reference isn't available, another one is automatically selected
from a priority list. This secondary reference keeps its current bias
estimate but stops updating it in order to be the new reference as close
as possible to the primary one.
- replace float32[21] URT covariances with smaller dedicated position/velocity/orientation variances (the crossterms are unused, awkward, and relatively costly)
- these are easier to casually inspect and more representative of what's actually being used currently and reduces the size of vehicle_odometry_s quite a bit
- ekf2: add new helper to get roll/pitch/yaw covariances
- mavlink: receiver ODOMETRY handle more frame types for both pose (MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_NED, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_ENU, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_FRD, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_FLU) and velocity (MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_NED, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_ENU, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_FRD, MAV_FRAME_LOCAL_FLU, MAV_FRAME_BODY_FRD)
- mavlink: delete unused ATT_POS_MOCAP stream (this is just a passthrough)
Co-authored-by: Mathieu Bresciani <brescianimathieu@gmail.com>
Charles Cross