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Modules Reference: Estimator ​

AttitudeEstimatorQ ​

Source: modules/attitude_estimator_q

Description ​

Attitude estimator q.

Usage ​

AttitudeEstimatorQ <command> [arguments...]
 Commands:
   start

   stop

   status        print status info

airspeed_estimator ​

Source: modules/airspeed_selector

Description ​

This module provides a single airspeed_validated topic, containing indicated (IAS), calibrated (CAS), true airspeed (TAS) and the information if the estimation currently is invalid and if based sensor readings or on groundspeed minus windspeed. Supporting the input of multiple "raw" airspeed inputs, this module automatically switches to a valid sensor in case of failure detection. For failure detection as well as for the estimation of a scale factor from IAS to CAS, it runs several wind estimators and also publishes those.

Usage ​

airspeed_estimator <command> [arguments...]
 Commands:
   start

   stop

   status        print status info

ekf2 ​

Source: modules/ekf2

Description ​

Attitude and position estimator using an Extended Kalman Filter. It is used for Multirotors and Fixed-Wing.

The documentation can be found on the ECL/EKF Overview & Tuning page.

ekf2 can be started in replay mode (-r): in this mode, it does not access the system time, but only uses the timestamps from the sensor topics.

Usage ​

ekf2 <command> [arguments...]
 Commands:
   start
     [-r]        Enable replay mode

   stop

   status        print status info
     [-v]        verbose (print all states and full covariance matrix)

   select_instance Request switch to new estimator instance
     <instance>  Specify desired estimator instance

local_position_estimator ​

Source: modules/local_position_estimator

Description ​

Attitude and position estimator using an Extended Kalman Filter.

Usage ​

local_position_estimator <command> [arguments...]
 Commands:
   start

   stop

   status        print status info

mc_hover_thrust_estimator ​

Source: modules/mc_hover_thrust_estimator

Description ​

Usage ​

mc_hover_thrust_estimator <command> [arguments...]
 Commands:
   start

   stop

   status        print status info