Bug Fixes:

https://github.com/PX4/ecl/pull/586 - EKF: fix covariance and output filter buffer initialization
https://github.com/PX4/ecl/pull/590 - EKF: Fix innovation in fuseDeclination()

Enhancements:

https://github.com/PX4/ecl/pull/543 - ekf_helper: add more useful methods to interface with the covariances
https://github.com/PX4/ecl/pull/588 - Add unit tests for DataValidator

Note:

https://github.com/PX4/ecl/pull/543  has required a change to how the state variances are accessed .

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Since Timeout from onboard controller is something that does not require a lot of modifications there is no sense to having it parametrized.

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Since commander handles all telemetry_status the same there is no need to subscribe to multiple instances.


Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Added COM_ONB_LOSS_T and COM_ONB_REG_T parameters to specify thresholds that triggers "onboard link lost" and "onboard link regained".


Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

Major changes:
- Prevent  "HIGH LATENCY DATA LINK LOST" message to appear if iridium telemetry is not used.
- Prevent "DATA LINK LOSS" mavlink messages flooding when QGC is open and then closed.
- Changed "DATA LINK REGAINED" condition (use _datalink_last_heartbeat_gcs insthead of _datalink_lost)



Signed-off-by: Claudio Micheli <claudio@auterion.com>

when still close to ground

Migrate a few more var initializations from the Mavlink class constructor list to the respective declarations.

Whitespace formatting in mavlink_main.cpp/h and begin work of some variable initialization at declaration in mavlink_main.h.