Discussions

INAVerr- Is it the GPS or FC or neither?

Posted by DG on February 22, 2015 at 4:34pm

Should I expect a crash at some point?

Nervously I took the Spy 750 Y6 up for the first time in over 3 weeks (had a warm spell of 25F today).

In stab it flies great, then switching to poshold it seemed fine, but did the twitchy thing again for a few seconds here and there, then seemed to smooth out (subjective). I brought it down and hovered nearby where it stayed rock steady for a minute or so and landed.

So, what does it mean when INAVerr goes to 255 and stays there? From what I understand it is the FC not receiving data from the GPS properly. Apparently this copter has done it from day one since transplanting the PIxhawk and running on AC3.2 and 3.2.1, with the 3DR GPS and the current CSGShop Neo-M8N. These errors did not exist on the Y6B with 3.1.5 and the 3DR GPS.

Any help is appreciated.

bxCuDK8.png

You need to be a member of diydrones to add comments!

Join diydrones

Email me when people reply –
Follow

Replies

  • tshado March 16, 2015 at 1:46pm

    I didn't understood that https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot/issues/1972 was opened to to modify INAVERR counter from 8 bits top 16 bits

    I will suggest to Jdennings who opened the ticket to open another one( or modify this one title) as this error is showing with 3DR LEA 6H GPS  we can get very high numbers of errors for these GPS Updates

    As this INAVERR is meaning that  inertial nav has not received a GPS update within 0.3 seconds , I agree with you that the GPS could be running sometime very slowly (at 3.33 hz or less frequency)

    But as Lea 6H GPS is being set at 5hz upadate , I doubt GPS will update several hundred of times at 3hz and in between recovering to normal updates

    Seems more to me that code is missing from time to time GPS updates

    Of course not really easy to see  degradation on EKF results and flights performance (remenber some twitching was reported by some users ), but If GPS messages are missed several hundred of times with 3DR GPS, this is bad

    I think this problem should be investigated to nail why GPS updates are missed by code

    Forgot to add that in the logs there were not GPS message  like "bad GPS health"  or others errors pointing to a GPS errors

    • Stuart Brookes > tshado March 19, 2015 at 12:29am

      I havebt digested this or INAVERR posts but as I was seeing these posts I thought I'd check the logs of mine. I don't have a particularly promlematic loiter the odd twitch.

      I am running the virtual robotix Ublox neo 8 and the specs say it has 5Hz update rate, I guess even before arducopter reconfigures it. I am running a virtual robotix microbrain with 5.1 bootloader, and some of my logs show high INAVERR, some don't, some step up a couple of times, some keeping ramping up to 255 early in the log.

      As I said I haven't noticed particularly poor loiter, if amything though when tuning I increased GPS weighting.

      My post is for info and comparison with other peoples setups., as my setup is slightly different but has the same issue, the common things being arducopter and the ublox 8 but in slightly different forms. 

  • tshado March 16, 2015 at 1:44pm

    @Randy

    Thanks for your answer

    The problem is also occuring with 3DR GPS LEA 6H as mentionned in some threads.

    Sometime also INAVERR went to max value of 255

    http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=31027087&postcoun...
    http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=31030526&postcoun...
    http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/arducopter-3-2-1-beta-testing?id=...

    http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/gps-issues-do-i-need-a-gps-ground...

    Related ticket:   https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot/issues/1972

    RC Groups - View Single Post - Pixhawk from 3D Robotics and PX4
    RC Groups - the most active Radio Control model community: electric and fuel rc airplanes,rc helis,rc boats and rc cars. Features discussion forums,…
  • tshado March 16, 2015 at 1:42pm
    http://diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Comment:1934458
    Reply by Randy 19 hours ago

    @tshado,

    The Inav errors mean that inertial nav has not received a GPS update within 0.3 seconds.  So that probably means that the GPS is running too slowly (i.e 3hz or less) or messages are being missed.  I've never used one of these GPSs so I'm really not sure what exact technical issue is that's causing the missed messages.

    It's hard to say how badly this will effect inertial nav's position and velocity estimates but it will have a negative effect I think.

  • tshado March 16, 2015 at 1:32pm

    One of my post and Randy's answer about INAVERR was deleted (I asked why) on the thread

    http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/gps-issues-do-i-need-a-gps-ground...

    For all of you to be aware , please read below Randy's answering  to the  INAVERR problem and my following answers

    So if you agree, as this Thread opened by DG is generic to INAVERR, perhaps we could continue here

    Let me know, thx

  • tshado March 15, 2015 at 5:20pm

    Several threads here on DIYDrones and RCGroups have been opened to discuss about the explanation and what represent these INAVERR errors in performance monitoring in logs

    This problem was reported end of  January

    Still no answers from 3DR/Dev guys, to tell us something about this INAVERR in logs

    A ticket was opened in Github about that

    I know that they are probably busy, but could be great if somebody could tell if this INAVERR error if indicating a problem or is not

    I found a post from Randy who in last November was thinking INAVERR at 255 was not a "very good thing"

    http://diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Comment:1482305

    Reply by Randy on November 25, 2013 at 6:52am

    Marcus,

         Thanks for the info.  Your copter missed one GPS message and went 0.07seconds without a fresh GPS update (you can see the 400ms jump in the GPS time between lines 2593 and 2606).  You were in Loiter mode but it was so short lived it didn't upset the navigation at all.  If it was -rc6 you would have seen a very slight twitch.  If that INAVErr was 255 meaning it had maxed out the recording of errors I'd be more concerned.  For now, this is consistent with what I'm also seeing which is that we're getting occasional missed messages which we still need to get to the bottom of but in low numbers it's not dangerous.

  • MarkM March 12, 2015 at 4:53am

    I don't know if my logs would help or hinder.

    I have a Drotek M8N - http://www.drotek.fr/shop/en/home/512-ublox-neo-m8-gps-hmc5983-comp... - mounted on a 5" tower above my TBS Discovery.

    The first flight included Circle mode, an auto mission and some general PosHold flying which after 12min still had a 0 inaverr.

    The 2nd flight was pretty much the same but without the Circle mode and half the time showed a small error of 27 towards the end of the flight.

    I have seen older logs with an inaverr of 255 but even with those the one constant is the quad always flies perfectly.

    No error.bin

    Small error.bin

  • DG March 8, 2015 at 8:13am

    Compress it (or not) and upload to Dropbox, Google Drive, Mediafire etc. then share it. If you don't want to, no problem, but the more people bringing this to the dev's attention, the more likely it will be addressed. Either it is a problem or it is not. To me there's no middle ground here.

    I can't speak for everyone, but having confidence in the software/firmware is most important. If there are conflicts with hardware, it needs to be figured out or at least acknowledged.

    • AKcopter > DG March 8, 2015 at 10:40am

      I tried to upload the log the first time around...the compressed file is still more than 7 MB..but for the time being here is a log from another flight..its a short flight in loiter but the INAVerr rises to 255 at round about 2 mins into the flight and stays there for the rest of the time...

      2015-03-07 17-55-44.log

This reply was deleted.

Activity