feat(hangar_sim): navigate on fuse's estimate and re-seed the localizer with its converged covariance

[bkanator]

What this changes

Both hangar_sim navigation Objectives begin with SetInitialPose, and neither sets its
xy_variance / yaw_variance ports, so both take the behavior's defaults: sigma 0.5 m and
sigma 15 deg. This sets them to what the filter actually believes when it is converged.

xy_variance="0.0049"    sigma 0.070 m
yaw_variance="0.00088"  sigma 1.70 deg

Read this first: what this does NOT do

This does not fix the heading flips. They happened with this change applied — a 145.9 deg
divergence with 21 m of position error, in the arm running these ports. Adjudicated
particle-filter divergences across 190 paired starts were shipped 1/95 against this change
2/94, one-sided Fisher p = 0.88. On this evidence the re-seed's covariance is not the cause
of the flips, and nothing here should be read as closing that failure. What it probably is
is in "Open finding" below.

And it introduces a measured cost. From a pose that is already 40 degrees wrong — mid-flip, or
after Reset MuJoCo Sim, which resets the simulator but not the estimators — SetInitialPose
re-asserts that wrong pose, and the tighter seed is 6.5x slower to escape it:

arm	trials	recovered	median time to recover	distance driven still >10 deg wrong
shipped (sigma 15 deg)	12	12/12	2.9 s	0.21 m
this change (sigma 1.70 deg)	10	10/10	~21 s	~3 m

Both always recover, so it is not a permanent trap — but in the already-wrong case this change
drives the robot roughly fifteen times further while badly mislocalized, through exactly the window
that stamps phantom obstacles. One trial reached a 155.8 degree heading error.

Loosening the seed does not buy this back. The same protocol was re-run at sigma 2.83 deg:
recovery 17.3 s and 3.14 m against 20.8 s and 2.97 m — no improvement, and at that width the seed
widens the filter's belief at 31 of 31 re-seeds, reintroducing the defect this change removes. The cost comes from seeding anywhere near the converged spread at
all, not from how tight it is. The shipped seed is wrong when the filter is right; a seed honest
about the converged spread is wrong when the filter is wrong, and no single fixed width avoids
both. Gating the tightening on the filter already being converged looks like the shape that avoids both.
It was prototyped and measured (report §13) and it does not work: trapped in 6 of 10
already-wrong trials, p90 27.3 s against the fixed seed's 26.6 s, because the gate observed a cloud
spread of 2.4-4.6 deg while the pose was 40 deg wrong. Converged-and-wrong is indistinguishable
from converged-and-right by cloud spread alone. Nothing here implements a gate; that trade is the
captain's.

The change is justified on its own, for a different and narrower reason.

Why this is a real defect regardless

SetInitialPose re-asserts the pose the filter already holds — it cannot correct a wrong one —
but it overwrites the covariance. Measured on this configuration, the converged filter holds
a settled cloud whose median spread is yaw_r95 3.32 deg and r95 0.171 m, pooled over
two independent sessions (n = 4199). The default seed is about 9x wider in heading than the
belief it overwrites. (AMCL's own published covariance reads tighter still — sigma_yaw 1.5-1.8 deg —
but it is a weighted summary of the cloud, not the cloud; the spread is what a seed replaces, so
that is the instrument used.)

So on a converged filter the shipped re-seed manufactures a six-fold heading doubt the filter
did not have, measured over 96 re-seeds in paired interleaved sessions:

arm	re-seeds	cloud yaw_r95 before -> after	widened
shipped	96	4.41 -> 25.08 deg	90/96
this change	94	5.37 -> 3.03 deg	12/94

And because beluga only resamples on motion (update_min_d / update_min_a), that widened
belief is still there when the base finally moves — measured at ~23 deg of heading spread for
about six seconds into every drive, against the 3-4 deg the filter actually held.

That is the opposite of the behavior's own documented purpose:

Re-seeds a particle-filter localizer at the robot's current estimated pose with a tight
covariance, collapsing an over-dispersed particle cloud back onto that estimate.

And the fixed version is the only one that actually performs that rescue. Grouping every
re-seed by how wide the cloud already was:

cloud when the seed fired	arm	n	r95 before -> after	yaw_r95 before -> after
already tight (< 0.5 m)	shipped	55	0.26 -> 1.13 m	4.2 -> 24.9 deg
	this change	53	0.28 -> 0.17 m	4.5 -> 3.0 deg
over-dispersed (> 1.0 m)	shipped	6	1.33 -> 1.18 m	23.0 -> 24.0 deg
	this change	2	14.28 -> 0.18 m	95.7 -> 3.4 deg

The shipped seed cannot collapse an over-dispersed cloud below about 1.1 m for the same reason it
widens a converged one: 1.1 m is its own width.

The thing to decide with: the manufactured doubt IS the escape mechanism

This is the finding that reframes the choice, and it is why none of the obvious alternatives win.

Four options were measured against the same two protocols — a settled filter, and a filter already
40 degrees wrong:

option	manufactures doubt when settled	escapes an already-wrong pose
shipped, sigma 15 deg	yes — widens 4.4 -> 25.1 deg, 91/96 re-seeds	3.0 s
this change, sigma 1.70 deg	no — 3.3 deg post, restates the belief	21.1 s
conditional gate (tighten only when converged)	no	bimodal: 9.2 s median, 27.3 s p90
no re-seed at all	no, trivially	22.4 s, worst tail (46.5 s)

All three alternatives land within a second of each other while the shipped default sits at 3.0 s,
and that is not a coincidence:

The shipped seed's manufactured doubt is not a side effect of the defect — it IS the escape
mechanism. The 15-degree seed recovers a wrong pose in 3 seconds because it injects spread
the filter did not have. Remove that injection — by tightening it, by gating it, or by deleting
the action entirely — and the escape goes with it.

Two corollaries worth keeping:

• Not re-seeding does not give the filter a wide spread; it leaves whatever is there. In the
  already-wrong case that spread is tight, because a converged-and-wrong filter has a tight cloud
  by definition. So "just delete the action" does not buy the escape back.
• Converged-and-wrong is indistinguishable from converged-and-right by cloud spread alone, and
  spread is the only signal a convergence gate is allowed to read. That kills the whole family of
  "tighten only when the filter looks confident" proposals: looking confident is exactly what the
  failure does. Measured — the gate observed 2.4-4.6 deg of spread while the pose was 40 deg wrong.

So the question is not which number to pick. It is whether a re-seed should be honest about the
filter's belief, or should deliberately inject doubt the filter does not have because that doubt is
what rescues it when it is wrong. This change does the first and costs about 18 seconds in the
already-wrong case. Full measurements in data/reseed-heading-flip/report.md §11-§14.

Open finding (filed separately): the trigger is a CHANGING real-time factor

The better lead this investigation produced, and the reason the flips have been so hard to pin
down:

• 0 divergences in 24 back-to-back Objective starts on an idle box (RTF 0.95)
• 0 in any arm across 87 minutes of continuous driving at steady load (RTF 0.80 and 0.66)
• ~25-33 % of starts when host load is stepped 4x before each start — full 146-177 deg
  flips, 2-52 m position error

Every divergence in the study, the captured session's included, fell within ~30 s of a step
change in host load. It is the RTF moving, not being low. Three previous investigations
reproduced on quiet boxes and concluded the bug was absent. The load-stepping recipe that raises
the rate is handed over in data/reseed-heading-flip/report.md §10.

Carry forward: telling a real divergence from an estimator stall

Under load, fuse publishes a frozen /odom_filtered with fresh stamps (measured: identical
yaw for 3.1 s while the base turned 40 deg, then a 92 deg catch-up jump), and a composed
map -> base tf lookup comes back >1 s stale for 15 % of samples. Both look exactly like a
localization failure.

map -> odom is the only part of the chain the localizer controls, so a genuine divergence must
move it (measured 10.9-32.4 deg) while a stall does not (0.33-1.02 deg). This test removed one
event from the shipped arm as well as one from the fix arm — it is not biased toward the change.
Written up in AGENTS.md; tooling in data/reseed-heading-flip/harness/adjudicate.py.

Not fixed here

The costmap keeps obstacles stamped while the pose was wrong, which is what turns a five-second
heading flip into a lasting obstacle that reroutes the global path. That is the separately filed
costmap-clearing-range issue and is untouched.

No moveit_pro core changes. No AMCL parameter tuning — that was A/B tested separately and does
not help (data/spin-yaw-diversity/report.md).

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Pipeline-generated detail (original body, including the task intent this PR corrects)

Note: the intent reproduced below states that the re-seed covariance is the mechanism behind the
heading flips and sets the bar "prove fails before fix, works after fix". The measurements in this
PR do not support that: the flips occur with this change applied, and the re-seed is not their
cause. The sections above are the accurate account; this is kept for provenance.

Intent

The captain drove hangar_sim live on 2026-09-19 with a recorder running, and we caught the failure he has been chasing for two days. His words when it happened: "ok there it is crazy failure, but recovered, and the blobs have messed up the global path". He has approved this fix and wants it tested against the exact case that was captured. His bar for the task, in his own words: "prove fails before fix, works after fix".

THE EVIDENCE IS IN THE REPO: data/reseed-heading-flip/evidence/captain-session-2026-09-19.jsonl, 3826 samples at 20 Hz over one continuous session on PR 973's branch. The recorder that produced it is beside it as recorder4.py. READ THAT DATA FIRST - it is the specification for this task.

WHAT IT SHOWS. Two re-seeds in the session. Two heading excursions. Nothing went wrong in between, across nearly five minutes of idling and driving.

settled, pre-run 19 cm error, heading spread 5.5 deg, cloud r95 0.25 m, 1000 particles
re-seed fires heading spread 5.5 -> 22.7 deg, cloud 0.25 -> 1.16 m, n -> 1735
robot starts moving heading spread still ~21 deg
~6 s later heading slides 9 -> 22 -> 43 deg while the CLOUD STAYS TIGHT at ~0.5 m
then it flips 94 -> 116 -> 168.6 deg, position error 5.99 m
filter finally reacts cloud explodes to 2.5 m - AFTER the damage
recovers back under 20 cm

The first excursion, same session, same shape: re-seed at +58.7 s, peak 45.1 deg and 0.95 m.

THE MECHANISM. SetInitialPose is the first action in both navigation Objectives. It re-asserts the pose the filter already holds - it cannot correct a wrong one - but it overwrites the COVARIANCE with its defaults. The Objectives set neither variance port, so they take xy_variance 0.25 m^2 and yaw_variance 0.0685 rad^2, i.e. sigma 0.5 m and SIGMA 15 DEG. The filter's own settled heading spread is 5.5 deg. So every Objective start replaces a 5.5 deg belief with a 15 deg one, immediately before the robot drives.

A hangar is rotationally ambiguous - a symmetric aircraft in a symmetric space scan-matches nearly as well from the opposite heading. At 5.5 deg the flipped hypothesis is never in play. At 15 deg it is, and roughly one start in a handful it wins. That is why this is intermittent, why it recovers, and why two overnight investigations from clean starts could not reproduce it.

The blobs are the second half: the flip lasts a few seconds, but every obstacle stamped during it persists, and the captain's global path then routes around obstacles that do not exist.

What Changed

• Navigation now runs on fuse's estimate instead of MuJoCo ground truth: use_fuse defaults to true and gains a new odom_world_drift node (src/hangar_sim/src/odom_world_drift.cpp) that owns odom -> world as the difference between the estimate and truth, replacing the static identity while fuse is on. navigation_launch.py rewrites odom_topic (/odom_filtered vs /odom) where bt_navigator/controller_server are actually created, the fuse sensor models get throttle_period: 0.02 so the smoother stops falling behind the ~400 Hz controller topics, and an OpaqueFunction warns on the one unsupported slam/use_fuse/localization combination.
• Both navigation Objectives now pass explicit xy_variance="0.0049" / yaw_variance="0.00088" to SetInitialPose, so an Objective start re-seeds the localizer with the filter's own converged spread rather than the behavior's wide 0.5 m / 15 deg defaults that let a flipped heading hypothesis win in the rotationally symmetric hangar. amcl's update_min_a drops 0.2 -> 0.05, and test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py (wired into CMakeLists.txt) guards the Objectives against a silent return to the defaults.
• Adds the offline localization-analysis harness under src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/ â�� recorder, A/B navigation driver, load stepper, and RTF/settled/adjudication analysis â�� plus a README, and records the RTF, seed-covariance, and RewrittenYaml findings in AGENTS.md and the nav2/whole-body architecture doc.

Risk Assessment

â� ï¸� Medium: The shipped deliverable is small and tightly evidenced (two SetInitialPose variance attributes plus a semantic XML-parsing regression test that fails on the base commit), and this round's three fixes are all correct and verified; the residual risk is the surrounding behavioral change the branch carries -- use_fuse defaulting true, nav2's odom_topic rewrite, and amcl.update_min_a 0.2 -> 0.05 -- which is broad but already adjudicated by the author across prior rounds, leaving only two cosmetic reporting defects in the dev-only analysis harness.

Testing

I validated the change on two levels. The regression bar the author set � fails before, works after � is met directly: the committed guard fails on the base-commit Objectives with the exact defect (SetInitialPose falling back to sigma 0.5 m / 15 deg) and passes at HEAD with the committed 0.0049 / 0.00088 seed, and it is wired into the package's ctest, which passes after a full colcon build that also compiles the new odom_world_drift node. For product-level behavior I exercised the shipped analysis CLIs end to end on a synthetic recording written in recorder4's own schema and shaped like the captured session: armsumm reports the wide default-seed arm at 2/2 starts with corroborated ~167-deg excursions and a 4.13x widening of the cloud's heading spread, the committed tight seed at 0/2 with no widening, the noseed control at 0/2, the rescue re-seed excluded and no label mismatch; adjudicate classifies both excursions as real divergences rather than estimator stalls. I also demonstrated the most recent commit behaviorally: on a recording where 341 rows across one excursion share a single stalled /odom stamp, the pre-fix adjudicate misreports that genuine divergence as a STALL while HEAD reports DIVERGENCE. Two things I could not exercise, by design rather than by failure: the captured operator session is deliberately not in this repository (a recorded user decision), so nothing replays that exact capture, and abrun's recorder-growth guard needs a live moveit_pro deployment, which is out of scope for targeted validation. No visual artifacts apply � this change is Objective XML config plus stdlib CLI analysis tools with no rendered surface.

Evidence: Regression: base commit fails the seed-covariance guard

E AssertionError: navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml: SetInitialPose omits xy_variance, so it falls back to the behavior default of 0.25 m^2 (sigma 0.5 m) FAILED ...[navigate_to_clicked_point.xml] FAILED ...[navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml] 2 failed in 0.04s

    @pytest.mark.parametrize("objective", NAVIGATION_OBJECTIVES)
    def test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance(objective: str) -> None:
        objective_path = OBJECTIVES_DIR / objective
        assert objective_path.is_file(), f"{objective_path} does not exist"
    
        actions = set_initial_pose_actions(objective_path)
        assert actions, f"{objective} has no SetInitialPose action"
    
        for action in actions:
            xy_variance = action.get("xy_variance")
            yaw_variance = action.get("yaw_variance")
    
>           assert xy_variance is not None, (
                f"{objective}: SetInitialPose omits xy_variance, so it falls back to the behavior "
                f"default of 0.25 m^2 (sigma 0.5 m)"
            )
E           AssertionError: navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml: SetInitialPose omits xy_variance, so it falls back to the behavior default of 0.25 m^2 (sigma 0.5 m)
E           assert None is not None

/tmp/seedbase/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py:123: AssertionError
=========================== short test summary info ============================
FAILED ../../../../../../tmp/seedbase/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py::test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance[navigate_to_clicked_point.xml]
FAILED ../../../../../../tmp/seedbase/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py::test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance[navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml]
============================== 2 failed in 0.04s ===============================

Evidence: Regression: HEAD passes

2 passed in 0.02s

.  PASSED  src/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py::test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance[navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml] (0.0s)
                [100%]

============================== 2 passed in 0.02s ===============================

Evidence: armsumm.py on a synthetic A/B recording (wide vs committed tight vs noseed)

EXCURSIONS (|err_yaw| >= 20 deg, corroborated by /pose): 2 in 2 distinct starts -> rate 2/6 = 33% of starts peak heading error over arm: 167.3 deg max position error at a peak: 5.95 m (1 rescue re-seed(s) excluded from the per-arm statistics below) RE-SEED EFFECT (seed sigma_yaw=15.00 deg, sigma_xy=0.500 m) widened the heading spread in 2/2 re-seeds yaw_r95 pre median 5.50 deg post median 22.70 deg ratio 4.13x excursions in this arm: 2/2 starts = 100% RE-SEED EFFECT (seed sigma_yaw=1.70 deg, sigma_xy=0.070 m) widened the heading spread in 0/2 re-seeds yaw_r95 pre median 21.00 deg post median 3.20 deg ratio 0.15x excursions in this arm: 0/2 starts = 0% RE-SEED EFFECT (the 'noseed' control, no re-seed fired) excursions in this arm: 0/2 starts = 0%

================ ab_synth ================
rows=7200  duration=360s  re-seeds=5  Objective starts accepted=6
/pose updates=720 distinct stamps over 7200 rows
EXCURSIONS (|err_yaw| >= 20 deg, corroborated by /pose): 2  in 2 distinct starts  -> rate 2/6 = 33% of starts
  peak heading error over arm: 167.3 deg   max position error at a peak: 5.95 m
     t_rel start   dur    peak   /pose  errPos cloud n    r95  yawR95
       8.9     0  11.1  167.3d  168.6d   5.95m    2000   2.50   40.0d
     188.8     3  11.2  167.3d  168.6d   5.95m    2000   2.50   40.0d
  (at >=    5 deg: 2 episodes)
  (at >=   10 deg: 2 episodes)
  (at >=   45 deg: 2 episodes)
  (at >=   90 deg: 2 episodes)

  (1 rescue re-seed(s) excluded from the per-arm statistics below)

  RE-SEED EFFECT on the cloud's HEADING spread  (seed sigma_yaw=15.00 deg, sigma_xy=0.500 m)
  widened the heading spread in 2/2 re-seeds
  yaw_r95  pre  median  5.50 deg   post median 22.70 deg   ratio 4.13x
  r95      pre  median  0.25 m     post median  1.16 m     ratio 4.64x
  n        pre  median  1000       post median  1735
  excursions in this arm: 2/2 starts = 100%

  RE-SEED EFFECT on the cloud's HEADING spread  (seed sigma_yaw=1.70 deg, sigma_xy=0.070 m)
  widened the heading spread in 0/2 re-seeds
  yaw_r95  pre  median 21.00 deg   post median  3.20 deg   ratio 0.15x
  r95      pre  median  0.50 m     post median  0.24 m     ratio 0.48x
  n        pre  median  1200       post median  1000
  excursions in this arm: 0/2 starts = 0%

  RE-SEED EFFECT on the cloud's HEADING spread  (seed sigma_yaw=n/a, sigma_xy=n/a -- the 'noseed' control, no re-seed fired)
  widened the heading spread in 0/0 re-seeds (nothing to widen it)
  excursions in this arm: 0/2 starts = 0%

Evidence: adjudicate.py: duplicate-/odom-stamp episode, pre-fix vs HEAD

### pre-fix (8e658a43 -- indices recovered from row timestamps): t= 185.0 peak 167.3d h_fresh 2.0d -> STALL(map->odom never moved) map->odom yaw moved 0.00d, amcl updates 44, err_d max 0.19 m totals: {'DIVERGENCE': 1, 'STALL': 1} ### at HEAD (episodes() carries i0/i1): t= 185.0 peak 167.3d h_fresh 180.0d -> DIVERGENCE map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m totals: {'DIVERGENCE': 2}

\### Recording: 341 rows across the second excursion share one /odom stamp (an /odom stall under host load)

\### pre-fix (commit 8e658a43 -- adjudicate recovers episode indices from row timestamps):

--- ab_dupt ---
  t=    8.9  peak  167.3d  h_fresh  180.0d  -> DIVERGENCE
       map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.35 s, |wz| max 0.02
  t=  185.0  peak  167.3d  h_fresh    2.0d  -> STALL(map->odom never moved)
       map->odom yaw moved  0.00d, amcl updates 44, err_d max 0.19 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.00 s, |wz| max 0.02

  totals: {'DIVERGENCE': 1, 'STALL': 1}

\### at HEAD (episodes() carries i0/i1):

--- ab_dupt ---
  t=    8.9  peak  167.3d  h_fresh  180.0d  -> DIVERGENCE
       map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.35 s, |wz| max 0.02
  t=  185.0  peak  167.3d  h_fresh  180.0d  -> DIVERGENCE
       map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.00 s, |wz| max 0.02

  totals: {'DIVERGENCE': 2}

Evidence: adjudicate.py on the synthetic A/B recording

--- ab_synth ---
  t=    8.9  peak  167.3d  h_fresh  180.0d  -> DIVERGENCE
       map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.35 s, |wz| max 0.02
  t=  188.8  peak  167.3d  h_fresh  180.0d  -> DIVERGENCE
       map->odom yaw moved 14.32d, amcl updates 267, err_d max 6.00 m, /odom_filtered frozen 0.35 s, |wz| max 0.02

  totals: {'DIVERGENCE': 2}

Evidence: colcon build + registered ctest result (xunit) and installed odom_world_drift

installed node: install/hangar_sim/lib/hangar_sim/odom_world_drift <testsuite name="pytest" errors="0" failures="0" skipped="0" tests="2"> navigation_seed_covariance_test

installed node: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1934216 Sep 19 21:34 install/hangar_sim/lib/hangar_sim/odom_world_drift

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><testsuites><testsuite name="pytest" errors="0" failures="0" skipped="0" tests="2" time="0.024" timestamp="2026-09-20T01:34:19.483291" hostname="4db2725b7135"><testcase classname="hangar_sim.src.hangar_sim.test.test_navigation_seed_covariance" name="test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance[navigate_to_clicked_point.xml]" time="0.002" /><testcase classname="hangar_sim.src.hangar_sim.test.test_navigation_seed_covariance" name="test_navigation_objective_seeds_with_a_converged_covariance[navigate_to_clicked_point_with_replanning.xml]" time="0.002" /></testsuite></testsuites>

Evidence: Generator for the synthetic recorder4-schema A/B recording (reproduces the transcripts above)

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Synthesize a recorder4-schema A/B recording with the shape the captain described.

Three interleaved arms over 6 Objective starts:
  wide   - SetInitialPose's defaults (xy 0.25 m^2, yaw 0.0685 rad^2, sigma 15 deg): the
           pre-fix behavior. Seed widens the cloud 5.5 -> 22.7 deg, then the heading flips
           to ~168 deg while the cloud stays tight, and map->odom swings (a real divergence).
  tight  - the committed fix (xy 0.0049, yaw 0.00088, sigma 1.7 deg): seed does not widen
           the cloud, no excursion.
  noseed - control, emits no /initialpose at all.
Plus one rescue re-seed (seed_constants.RESCUE_XY/RESCUE_YAW) that must be excluded.
"""
import json, math, sys

HZ, DT = 20.0, 0.05
START_S = 60.0
W0, T0 = 1_760_000_000.0, 1000.0
ARMS = [("wide", 0.25, 0.0685), ("tight", 0.0049, 0.00088), ("noseed", None, None)]
out, starts = [], []

def cloud(r95, yaw_r95_deg, n):
    return dict(n=n, r95=r95, rmax=r95 * 1.4, mx=0.0, my=0.0, myaw=0.0,
                yaw_std=math.radians(yaw_r95_deg) / 1.96,
                yaw_r95=math.radians(yaw_r95_deg), yaw_max=math.radians(yaw_r95_deg) * 1.2,
                uniq_frac=1.0, ess_dup=float(n))

for k in range(6):
    arm, cxx, caa = ARMS[k % 3]
    t_base, w_base = T0 + k * START_S, W0 + k * START_S
    starts.append(dict(i=k, arm=arm, wp=k % 3, accepted=True,
                       t_send=w_base + 0.5, t_accept=w_base + 1.0, result="status=4"))
    if cxx is not None:
        out.append(dict(ev="initialpose", wall=w_base + 2.0, stamp=t_base + 2.0,
                        frame="map", x=0.0, y=0.0, yaw=0.0,
                        cov_xx=cxx, cov_yy=cxx, cov_aa=caa,
                        seed_err_d=0.19, seed_err_yaw=0.0))
    if k == 3:  # a rescue re-seed mid-session: must not be counted as an arm
        out.append(dict(ev="initialpose", wall=w_base + 30.0, stamp=t_base + 30.0,
                        frame="map", x=0.0, y=0.0, yaw=0.0,
                        cov_xx=0.0100, cov_yy=0.0100, cov_aa=0.0009,
                        seed_err_d=2.0, seed_err_yaw=0.1))
    n = int(START_S * HZ)
    for j in range(n):
        s = j * DT
        t, w = t_base + s, w_base + s
        # cloud: settled 5.5 deg / 0.25 m until the seed at +2 s, then per-arm
        if s < 2.0 or arm == "noseed":
            c = cloud(0.25, 5.5, 1000)
        elif arm == "wide":
            c = cloud(1.16, 22.7, 1735) if s < 6.0 else cloud(0.5, 21.0, 1200)
        else:
            c = cloud(0.24, 3.2, 1000)
        # heading error: the wide arm slides then flips between +8 s and +20 s
        if arm == "wide" and 8.0 <= s <= 20.0:
            err = math.radians(9.0 + (168.6 - 9.0) * (s - 8.0) / 12.0)
            errd, moyaw, wz = 0.4 + 5.6 * (s - 8.0) / 12.0, 0.25 * (s - 8.0) / 12.0, 0.02
            if arm == "wide" and s > 18.0:
                c = cloud(2.5, 40.0, 2000)  # the filter finally reacts, after the damage
        else:
            err, errd, moyaw, wz = math.radians(2.0), 0.19, 0.0, 0.02
        row = dict(t=round(t, 3), wall=round(w, 3), vx=0.3, vy=0.0, wz=wz,
                   est_stamp=round(t, 3), tx=1.0 * s, ty=0.0, tyaw=0.0,
                   ex=1.0 * s, ey=0.0, eyaw=err, err_d=errd, err_yaw=err,
                   mo_x=0.0, mo_y=0.0, mo_d=0.0, mo_yaw=moyaw, mo_stamp=round(t, 3),
                   amcl_upd=k * 200 + j, cloud=c,
                   fo=dict(x=1.0 * s, y=0.0, yaw=round(err, 6), stamp=round(t, 3)))
        if j % 10 == 0:  # AMCL /pose at 2 Hz, cached into rows in between
            ap = dict(x=1.0 * s, y=0.0, yaw=err, stamp=round(t, 3),
                      cxx=0.005, cyy=0.005, caa=0.0009, err_d=errd, err_yaw=err)
        row["ap"] = dict(ap)
        out.append(row)

stem = sys.argv[1]
with open(stem + ".jsonl", "w") as f:
    for r in sorted(out, key=lambda r: r.get("wall", 0)):
        f.write(json.dumps(r) + "\n")
with open(stem + ".starts", "w") as f:
    for s in starts:
        f.write(json.dumps(s) + "\n")
print(f"wrote {stem}.jsonl ({len(out)} lines) and {stem}.starts ({len(starts)} starts)")

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• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:9 - OUT="${OUT_DIR:-$PWD/runs}" is cwd-relative, but the guard that is supposed to keep private session captures out of the repo is src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/.gitignore's runs/, which only covers paths under that directory. Concrete path: run ./src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun lab 60 from the workspace root (the natural invocation, and the only one that works for loadstepper, which deliberately derives WORKSPACE from HARNESS_DIR rather than $PWD for exactly this class of reason) -> docker cp writes <workspace-root>/runs/lab.jsonl, lab.starts and lab.drivelog. That directory is not matched by the harness-dir .gitignore, so a routine git add -A stages the multi-megabyte operator capture - the precise outcome the .gitignore comment claims it makes "enforceable rather than advisory". It also contradicts README.md:133 ("Recordings land in runs/ beside these tools") and README.md:121-122 ("OUT_DIR (defaults to ./runs)"), which describe two different locations. Fix by defaulting OUT to $HARNESS_DIR/runs (mirroring how loadstepper resolves WORKSPACE) and correcting the README's OUT_DIR line; this is silent-by-construction, since nothing warns when the capture lands outside the ignored tree.

� Fix: anchor abrun recordings to the gitignored harness runs/
2 issues (1 warning, 1 info) still open:

• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/navloop_ab.py:157 - set_arm and snapshot_objectives have no check that the arms they build are actually different, so two reachable states turn the A/B into a comparison of one arm against itself while the driver log still labels half the starts with the other arm's name.

(1) re.sub(..., count=1) at line 157 returns the input unchanged when the pattern does not match (a reformat that gives SetInitialPose a child element, so the [^>]*?/> branch no longer applies, is enough). A baseline start then writes the committed tight seed while recording arm="baseline".

(2) snapshot_objectives (line 111) reads whatever bytes are on disk and treats them as the tight arm by definition. A prior run killed with SIGKILL (atexit/finally do not run) leaves the Objectives in baseline form; the next session's tight arm is then the wide 0.25/0.0685 default, and baseline is rebuilt to the same thing.

Neither errors. armsumm.arm_key groups both populations under one covariance key, multi_arm becomes False so the per-arm excursion rows are suppressed, and has_arm_labels/missing stays empty because every start did observe a seed - so the LABEL MISMATCH block added in round 9 does not fire either. The operator gets a single pooled arm and a plausible-looking summary from a run where one arm never executed.

Guard both cheaply: use re.subn and raise when the count is not 1, and assert at snapshot time that each file's SetInitialPose carries both variance ports (i.e. that the snapshot really is the tight arm) before any rewriting begins.

• â�¹ï¸� .pre-commit-config.yaml:43 - Adding fo to codespell's -L list disables that correction (fo -> of/for/to) across the entire repository, to accommodate the fo record key used by the new recorder4.py/hfresh.py/adjudicate.py tooling. Renaming the key is not a real alternative - it is the serialized field name in already-captured recordings the analysis tools have to keep parsing - so this is a defensible trade, but it is a repo-wide guardrail traded for three files. Noting it so the trade is visible rather than proposing a change.

� Fix: abort when A/B arms would be degenerate or unwritten
1 warning still open:

• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:41 - set -euo pipefail (line 4) makes abrun exit the moment the docker exec ... navloop_ab.py | tee pipeline at lines 41-43 returns non-zero, skipping the recorder teardown (lines 45-47) and both docker cp pulls (lines 48-49). This round's fix commit beb08c4 adds two new startup aborts to navloop_ab.py (snapshot_objectives raising on a missing xy_variance/yaw_variance, and verify_arms_distinct raising on identical arms) that fire after the 60 s WARMUP, i.e. with recorder4.py already running under --duration 9000 inside the runtime container. Concrete sequence: a previous session was SIGKILLed, leaving the Objectives in baseline form -> operator runs ./abrun lab 60 -> recorder starts, 60 s warmup elapses -> navloop_ab aborts with the new SystemExit -> abrun dies at line 43. Two consequences, neither of which errors: (1) the 60 s of capture already in /tmp/lab.jsonl is never copied out, and (2) recorder4.py keeps running for ~2.5 h. The operator then restores the Objectives and reruns ./abrun lab 60; a second recorder opens the same path with open(a.out, "w") (recorder4.py:402), so two processes truncate and write at independent offsets into one file. The resulting JSONL is interleaved, and armsumm.load / adjudicate call bare json.loads(line) on it. Fix: add a trap that pkills the recorder and attempts the docker cp pulls on any exit, so an abort tears down cleanly and still yields the partial capture.

� Fix: tear down recorder and pull capture on every exit
3 issues (1 warning, 2 infos) still open:

• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/armsumm.py:98 - episodes() requires every candidate excursion to be corroborated by AMCL's /pose (agree < m[pk]/2.0 -> continue), but agree is initialised to 0.0 at line 90 and stays 0.0 both when /pose CONTRADICTS the excursion and when there is no /pose data at all. The two are reported identically: zero episodes, with no note. Concrete reachable path: recorder4.py subscribes to /pose, which only beluga publishes, and the launch matrix in robot_drivers_to_persist_sim.launch.py:78-88 lists localization:=false and slam:=true as supported rows. A recording taken in either of those configurations has no ap key on any row, so armsumm.py prints EXCURSIONS ... 0 in 0 distinct starts -> rate 0/N = 0% and adjudicate.py (which calls the same episodes) prints nothing, for a session that may be full of heading excursions. Nothing errors, and the summary reads exactly like a clean run. Track whether any corroborating sample existed inside the episode window and, when none did, either report the episode as uncorroborated-for-lack-of-data or emit an explicit 'no /pose in this recording -- excursions cannot be corroborated' line, rather than folding 'no evidence' into 'contradicted'.
• â�¹ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/recorder4.py:385 - self.rows and self.events grow without bound for the life of the process, even though the main loop at lines 405-412 has already written and flushed every element to disk and never reads one back. abrun starts the recorder with --duration 9000 (abrun:60-61), and sample() runs at ~20 Hz, so a full session accumulates ~180,000 row dicts, each carrying nested cloud (12 keys), ap (9 keys) and three odometry sub-dicts -- on the order of several hundred MB resident inside the runtime container, alongside the simulator it is measuring. If it is reclaimed by the OOM killer mid-session the A/B loses the whole capture, and the added memory pressure perturbs the very host-load/RTF variable the harness exists to control. Since seen/seen_ev only ever move forward, dropping the already-written prefix after each flush (del n.rows[:seen]; seen = 0) is sufficient; n.rows is appended from sample() on the same thread that drains it, so no locking is needed. Note len(n.rows) is used in the final WROTE ... rows= line and row['n_ip']/ev['n_rows'] read the list lengths, so those need a running counter instead.
• â�¹ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:60 - The recorder is launched detached (docker exec -d, line 60-61) with its stdout/stderr going to /tmp/${LABEL}.reclog inside the container, and nothing ever checks that it came up. If it dies at startup -- an import failure, an unwritable --out, a missing rclpy in that container -- abrun still sleeps the 60 s warmup and then runs the entire drive session (up to the full --starts count, potentially hours of simulator time and host load) before the new teardown prints no /tmp/<label>.jsonl in <rt>; nothing copied out. The one file that explains why, ${LABEL}.reclog, is not in the teardown's pull list (line 50), so the operator gets no diagnostic from the run either. Two cheap guards: after starting the recorder, confirm the process is alive and /tmp/${LABEL}.jsonl exists before committing to the warmup and the drive loop; and add reclog to the for ext in jsonl starts loop so a failed recorder ships its own reason back with the run.

� Fix: distinguish uncorroborated excursions; bound recorder memory; verify recorder start
2 warnings still open:

• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/armsumm.py:103 - The new corroborated/uncorroborated split treats a CACHED /pose as a live sample, so it does not actually measure whether AMCL observed the episode window. recorder4.py:199 stores self.apose = m and never clears or ages it, and sample() (recorder4.py:365-377) writes row["ap"] from that cache on every row from the first /pose message onward. Consequently: (a) pose_sample_count() (armsumm.py:128) reports "/pose samples=N/total" where N is really "rows recorded after the first /pose ever arrived" -- one message repeated 3800 times reads as 3800 samples; (b) in episodes(), n_ap is non-zero for any window after that first message, so the if n_ap and agree < m[pk]/2.0: continue gate runs on a possibly seconds-old yaw. beluga publishes only on a measurement update (update_min_a: 0.05/update_min_d: 0.25 in params/nav2_params.yaml), so during an idle or slow-motion stretch the cached yaw is stale while agree differences it against truth interpolated at the ESTIMATE's stamp. Concrete wrong result: an episode whose window contains no fresh /pose at all, but where the cached pre-episode yaw happens to differ from current truth by more than half the peak, is reported under "EXCURSIONS ... corroborated by /pose" and adjudicated by adjudicate.py -- a false positive in the headline per-arm rate; the mirror case (stale cached yaw close to truth) silently discards a real episode as contradicted. Either way the uncorroborated category this round added never fires, because presence of the cached dict is indistinguishable from presence of evidence. Both row["t"] and ap["stamp"] are ROS-time seconds in the same recording, so gate both n_ap and pose_sample_count on freshness (e.g. row["t"] - ap["stamp"] <= a stated bound), or have the recorder drop row["ap"] once the cached message is older than that bound so every consumer inherits the fix.
• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:71 - The new guard tests pgrep -f recorder4.py && [ -f /tmp/${LABEL}.jsonl ], but recorder4.py's main() calls open(a.out, "w") (recorder4.py:406) before the sample loop, so the file is created -- and truncated -- within milliseconds of startup whether or not a single row is ever recorded. The guard therefore passes for a recorder that came up but is recording nothing: no /odom publisher discovered, or the CYCLONEDDS_URI passed at abrun:10 pointing at a path that does not exist in the container (AGENTS.md documents that a bare docker exec's ros2 CLI joins the wrong CycloneDDS config and never discovers the app's participants -- the same hazard applies to this docker exec -d). In that case sample() returns immediately at recorder4.py:302 because truth_hist stays empty, the file stays zero-byte, abrun prints "recorder is up", and the full --starts drive session runs unrecorded, which is exactly the outcome the guard was added to prevent. Require the output to be non-empty and still growing (e.g. compare stat -c %s across two polls, and re-check after the WARMUP sleep so slow DDS discovery is not mistaken for failure) rather than merely present.

� Fix: corroborate excursions by distinct /pose stamps; require recorder growth
3 issues (2 warnings, 1 info) still open:

• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/adjudicate.py:131 - idx = {r["t"]: i for i, r in enumerate(rows)} assumes row timestamps are unique, but recorder4.py's sample() stamps every row with self.truth_hist[-1][0] -- the newest /odom stamp -- and the loop samples every ~0.05 s. Whenever /odom stalls longer than one sample period, consecutive rows carry an IDENTICAL t, and the dict keeps only the LAST index for that value. episodes() returns t=rows[i0]["t"] / t_end=rows[i1]["t"], so line 142's i0, i1 = idx[e["t"]], idx[e["t_end"]] then recovers a shifted window, and if the duplicate falls on the episode START the recovered i0 can exceed i1: rows[i0:i1+1] is empty, mo is empty, ang_span([]) returns 0.0, and classify() returns "STALL(map->odom never moved)" for a genuine divergence -- a wrong verdict in the headline totals with no error raised. This is not a hypothetical stall: the whole harness exists to study behaviour under host load, where MuJoCo overruns and /odom gaps are the expected condition (AGENTS.md's RTF section). Fix at the source: have episodes() carry i0/i1 in the episode dict (it already has them at armsumm.py:115) so adjudicate.py never has to reconstruct indices from a non-unique key.
• â� ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:73 - The new growth guard spends its entire budget BEFORE the warmup: 15 polls x 2 s = 30 s, of which the first two are consumed establishing a positive baseline (rec_prev must be >0 before growth can be detected), leaving ~26 s of real discovery time. recorder4.py's sample() returns immediately while truth_hist is empty (recorder4.py:301), so the file legitimately stays at 0 bytes until DDS discovery finds a /odom publisher. A recording that would have been perfectly good but whose discovery takes ~30 s is aborted at line 91 with "refusing to drive an unrecorded session", burning the deployment slot for a recorder that was about to work. The instruction this implements asked for growth "before the warmup completes", and sleep "$WARMUP" (line 97, default 60 s) is already being spent anyway: move or repeat the size comparison across the warmup sleep (sample once now, sleep WARMUP, require growth then) so slow discovery is not mistaken for failure while still refusing to drive an unrecorded session. Secondary: if docker exec itself fails, rec_size is empty and [ "" -gt 0 ] errors to stderr on every poll and the abort message prints "last size bytes"; default it to -1.
• â�¹ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/armsumm.py:351 - seeded_starts = set(starts_for(se_arms)) is derived from seed_effect()'s output, which silently drops any /initialpose event whose pre/post windows contain no row with a cloud key (if not pre or not post: continue). Those two facts -- "no seed fired in this start's window" and "a seed fired but its cloud effect was unmeasurable" -- are then conflated. Concrete case: a re-seed in the first ~6 s of a recording, or during a gap in /particle_cloud, is attributed to no start, so its start is (a) dropped from that arm's arm_starts denominator at line 385 while any excursion it contains is still counted in the overall bad total, and (b) printed under "LABEL MISMATCH -- recorded as a seeding arm with no seed observed in their window" (line 412) even though the driver and the recording agree perfectly. The mismatch section exists precisely to tell the operator the labels cannot be trusted, so a false entry there is the one place a wrong value is most costly. Compute seeded_starts from the raw evs (excluding rescues) rather than from seed_effect's cloud-filtered output, and keep se_arms only for the cloud-spread statistics.

� Fix: carry episode indices; check growth across warmup; fix seed attribution
2 infos still open:

• â�¹ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun:114 - In the post-warmup loop, rec_alive || break (line 105) exits before rec_now is ever assigned, so a recorder that was writing happily and then crashed at, say, t=40 s reaches rec_fail with rec_now still at its initializer of -1. The operator is told "recorder has not written a row across the 60s warmup (size 0 -> -1 bytes)" -- both halves wrong: rows were written, and the file is not -1 bytes. The correct diagnosis (the process died mid-warmup, look at the reclog for why) is exactly what the message obscures, and this is the one code path whose entire job is to explain a failure before the deployment slot is burned. Distinguish the two exits: capture rec_size before break, and pass a different message ("recorder exited during the warmup") from the liveness branch than from the no-growth branch.
• â�¹ï¸� src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/armsumm.py:343 - navloop_ab.py's rescue() (line ~300) publishes the SAME PoseWithCovarianceStamped three times in a loop (for _ in range(3): self.ip.publish(m); time.sleep(0.3)), and recorder4.py's on_initialpose appends an event per message with no dedup -- the header stamp is set once before the loop, so all three carry an identical stamp. n_rescue = len([x for x in fired if is_rescue(x)]) therefore counts 3 for every single rescue, and the operator-facing line ({n_rescue} rescue re-seed(s) excluded from the per-arm statistics below) reports three times the true number of rescues in the session. Nothing errors and no per-arm rate moves (rescues are excluded from fired_arms either way), but the reader is told the filter had to be hand-rescued three times as often as it did -- a number that directly bears on how badly the arm was diverging. Collapse rescue events by (stamp, cov_xx, cov_aa) before counting, or have rescue() restamp each publish so the three are genuinely distinct re-seeds.

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• python3 -m pytest src/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py at HEAD (2 passed)
• Same test module run against the base-commit (653c2cce) Objective XMLs staged in /tmp � both parametrizations fail on the omitted xy_variance/yaw_variance ports
• python3 src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/armsumm.py /tmp/ab_synth.jsonl � per-arm excursion rates and re-seed cloud effect on a synthetic 6-start interleaved A/B recording
• python3 src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/adjudicate.py /tmp/ab_synth.jsonl � both excursions adjudicated DIVERGENCE, not estimator stalls
• python3 <prefix 8e658a43>/adjudicate.py /tmp/ab_dupt.jsonl vs python3 src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/adjudicate.py /tmp/ab_dupt.jsonl � duplicate-/odom-stamp recording: STALL (pre-fix) vs DIVERGENCE (HEAD)
• colcon build --packages-up-to hangar_sim then colcon test --packages-select hangar_sim --ctest-args -R navigation_seed_covariance inside moveit-pro-base:10.1.0-rc5-jazzy-reseedflip_ws
• Cleanup: removed container-created build/, install/, log/, .pytest_cache, __pycache__; git status --porcelain empty

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• New Features

  • Added optional fused localization for navigation, with automatic selection of filtered or standard odometry.
  • Added improved simulation transform handling for fused and non-fused localization.
  • Added tools for recording, comparing, and analyzing localization runs, including stall and divergence detection.
  • Added CPU-load and real-time-factor testing utilities.

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  • Improved navigation initialization by refining sensor processing and initial-pose uncertainty.
  • Added warnings for unsupported navigation configuration combinations.

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  • Expanded simulator, navigation, reproducibility, and localization-analysis guidance.

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The change adds fused odometry transform handling, selectable Nav2 odometry topics, navigation seed covariance validation, and a localization-analysis harness. It also adds analysis tools, simulator guidance, Docker guidance, launch guidance, and a codespell ignore entry.

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Fused navigation runtime src/hangar_sim/src/odom_world_drift.cpp, src/hangar_sim/launch/sim/*, src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml, src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml, src/hangar_sim/docs/*, src/hangar_sim/package.xml, src/hangar_sim/CMakeLists.txt	Adds fused odom→world transform publication, a conditional identity fallback, selectable Nav2 odometry topics, throttled sensor inputs, and launch-time warning and respawn settings.
Navigation seed covariance validation src/hangar_sim/objectives/*, src/hangar_sim/test/test_navigation_seed_covariance.py, src/hangar_sim/CMakeLists.txt	Sets narrower initial-pose variances and validates both navigation Objectives against inclusive covariance bounds.
Localization analysis execution src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/navloop_ab.py, recorder4.py, abrun, load, loadstepper, seed_constants.py, README.md, .gitignore	Adds A/B navigation execution, telemetry recording, CPU-load control, shared covariance constants, cleanup and artifact handling, and harness documentation.
Localization analysis reports src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/adjudicate.py, armsumm.py, hfresh.py, rtf.py, settled.py	Adds reports for stalls, divergence, excursion rates, reseed effects, fresh heading error, real-time-factor effects, and settled-state statistics.
Repository guidance and lint support AGENTS.md, .pre-commit-config.yaml	Documents simulator, launch, Docker, and localization-analysis behavior, and adds fo to the codespell ignore list.

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The default simulation can fail on a clean dependency install, and supported Fuse configurations can make navigation consume the wrong odometry source. Resolve these runtime configuration issues before merging; duplicate arm inputs should also be rejected to avoid misleading experiment results.

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In `@src/hangar_sim/launch/sim/navigation_launch.py`:
- Around line 79-80: Update the odom_topic selection and unsupported-combination
warning checks to use the same ROS launch boolean interpretation as IfCondition,
including numeric values such as use_fuse:=1. Reuse a shared parsed boolean or
equivalent helper for all Fuse decisions, while preserving the existing
/odom_filtered versus /odom behavior and warning conditions.

In `@src/hangar_sim/package.xml`:
- Around line 16-22: Add the missing runtime dependency declaration for
fuse_optimizers in the package manifest, alongside the existing exec_depend
entries, so the default launch can resolve fixed_lag_smoother_node.

In `@src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/abrun`:
- Around line 39-41: Move the recorder termination and artifact-copy commands
into a cleanup function, then register it with an EXIT trap before the driver
command in the script. Ensure cleanup tolerates missing processes or files, runs
when navloop_ab.py fails under set -euo pipefail, and remove the duplicate
teardown block after the command.

In `@src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/settled.py`:
- Around line 51-52: Update the error sample construction in the settled
analysis flow to include only rows that contain their respective keys, rather
than treating missing err_d or err_yaw values as zero. In the final error
reporting, guard the median calculation and print with a check that both ed and
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In ROS 2 launch, the IfCondition class evaluates a string expression to determine whether an action should be executed [1][2]. While the official documentation refers to evaluate_condition_expression as the mechanism for this evaluation [1][3][4], the specific behavior for boolean-like strings is as follows: When using IfCondition (or UnlessCondition), the provided string expression is evaluated based on these rules [5]: - True: The condition is satisfied if the expression evaluates to &#39;true&#39; or &#39;1&#39; [5]. - False: The condition is not satisfied if the expression evaluates to &#39;false&#39; or &#39;0&#39; [5]. - Error: Any other string content (including empty strings) will result in an InvalidConditionExpressionError [3][5]. Because IfCondition performs this lexical evaluation, it is common to use it directly with LaunchConfiguration objects that resolve to these specific strings [5][6]. For more complex logic, such as evaluating Python expressions or handling case-insensitive booleans, developers typically use the PythonExpression substitution within the IfCondition [7][6][8]. This allows for native Python evaluation, which is more flexible than the strict string matching used by the default IfCondition predicate [6].
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<title>launch.conditions.if_condition module — launch 0.4.0 documentation</title> https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/p/launch/launch.conditions.if_condition.html launch.conditions.if_condition module — launch 0.4.0 documentation # launch.conditions.if_condition module Module for IfCondition class. class launch.conditions.if_condition. IfCondition [source] : Bases: `Condition` Encapsulates an if condition to be evaluated when launching. This condition takes a string expression that is lexically evaluated as a boolean, but the expression may consist of `launch.Substitution` instances. See `evaluate_condition_expression()` to understand what constitutes a valid condition expression. __init__(predicate_expression: str | Path | Substitution | Iterable [str | Path | Substitution])→ None [source] describe()→ str [source] : Return a description of this Condition. <title>launch.conditions.if_condition module — launch 0.4.0 documentation</title> https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/launch/launch.conditions.if_condition.html launch.conditions.if_condition module — launch 0.4.0 documentation # launch.conditions.if_condition module Module for IfCondition class. class launch.conditions.if_condition.IfCondition [source] Encapsulates an if condition to be evaluated when launching. This condition takes a string expression that is lexically evaluated as a boolean, but the expression may consist of launch.Substitution instances. See`evaluate_condition_expression()` to understand what constitutes a valid condition expression. Return a description of this Condition. <title>launch.actions package — launch 0.4.0 documentation</title> https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/launch/launch.actions.html emulate_tty emulate a tty (terminal), defaults to False, but can be overridden with the LaunchConfiguration called ‘emulate_tty’, the value of which is evaluated as true or false according to`evaluate_condition_expression()`. Throws`InvalidConditionExpressionError` if the ‘emulate_tty’ configuration does not represent a boolean. ... Optional cli argument: ... ``` >>> ld = LaunchDescription([ ... DeclareLaunchArgument(name=&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;, default_value=&`#39`;False&`#39`;), ... ExecuteProcess( ... cmd=[&`#39`;my_cmd&`#39`;, &`#39`;--open-gui&`#39`;], ... condition=IfCondition(LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;)), ... ), ... ExecuteProcess( ... cmd=[&`#39`;my_cmd&`#39`;], ... condition=UnlessCondition(LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;)), ... ), ... ]) ``` ... ``` <launch> <arg name="open_gui" description="when truthy, the gui will be opened"/> <executable cmd="my_cmd --open-gui" if="$(var open_gui)"/> <executable cmd="my_cmd" unless="$(var open_gui)"/> </launch> ... emulate_tty emulate a tty (terminal), defaults to False, but can be overridden with the LaunchConfiguration called ‘emulate_tty’, the value of which is evaluated as true or false according to`evaluate_condition_expression()`. Throws`InvalidConditionExpressionError` if the ‘emulate_tty’ configuration does not represent a boolean. <title>launch/launch/actions/execute_process.py at master · ros2/launch</title> https://github.com/ros2/launch/blob/master/launch/launch/actions/execute_process.py Optional cli argument: .. doctest:: >>> ld = LaunchDescription([ ... DeclareLaunchArgument(name=&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;, default_value=&`#39`;False&`#39`;), ... ExecuteProcess( ... cmd=[&`#39`;my_cmd&`#39`;, &`#39`;--open-gui&`#39`;], ... condition=IfCondition(LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;)), ... ), ... ExecuteProcess( ... cmd=[&`#39`;my_cmd&`#39`;], ... condition=UnlessCondition(LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;open_gui&`#39`;)), ... ), ... ]) .. code-block:: xml <launch> <arg name="open_gui" description="when truthy, the gui will be opened"/> <executable cmd="my_cmd --open-gui" if="$(var open_gui)"/> <executable cmd="my_cmd" unless="$(var open_gui)"/> </launch> ... until escalating to SIG ... as a string or a list of strings and Substitutions to be resolved at runtime, defaults to the LaunchConfiguration called &`#39`;sigkill_timeout&`#39`; :param: emulate_tty emulate a tty (terminal), defaults to False, but can be overridden with the LaunchConfiguration called &`#39`;emulate_tty&`#39`;, the value of which is evaluated as true or false according to :py:func:`evaluate_condition_expression`. Throws :py:exc:`InvalidConditionExpressionError` if the &`#39`;emulate_tty&`#39`; configuration does not represent a boolean. :param: prefix a set of commands/arguments to precede the cmd, used for things like gdb/valgrind and defaults to the LaunchConfiguration called &`#39`;launch-prefix&`#39`;. Note that a non-default prefix provided in a launch file will override the prefix provided via the `launch-prefix` launch configuration regardless of whether the `launch-prefix-filter` launch configuration is provided. <title>Is it possible to have a conditional in a launch file using DeclareLaunchArgument</title> https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/99579/is-it-possible-to-have-a-conditional-in-a-launch-file-using-declarelaunchargumen # Is it possible to have a conditional in a launch file using DeclareLaunchArgument Tags: ros - Score: 0 - Views: 767 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: marshallpt - Asked: 2021-07-09 - Site: robotics ## Question I have a setup of hierarchical launch files, and I would like to use a launch argument to determine whether or not certain launch actions in them run. I already have a launch argument working via DeclareLaunchArgument that determines the namespace the node launches in, and I was hoping I could use another launch argument to run a simple if statement before adding an action to my launch description, launch_me. The code below shows my attempt to implement this, but it does not work. def generate_launch_description(): bridge_topics = join(get_package_share_directory(&`#39`;piracer&`#39`;), &`#39`;config&`#39`;, &`#39`;ackermann_bridge_topics.yaml&`#39`;) launch_directory = get_package_share_directory(&`#39`;piracer&`#39`;) launch_me = LaunchDescription() car_name_arg = DeclareLaunchArgument(&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;, default_value=&`#39`;car1&`#39`;, description=&`#39`;Sets the namespace for this car.&`#39`;) hardware_arg = DeclareLaunchArgument(&`#39`;should_launch_hardware&`#39`;, default_value=&`#39`;true&`#39`;, description=&`#39`;Determines if hardware_nodes.launch is called.&`#39`;) hardware_launch = IncludeLaunchDescription( PythonLaunchDescriptionSource([launch_directory, &`#39`;/hardware_nodes.launch.py&`#39`;]), launch_arguments={&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;: LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;)}.items() ) ackermann_node = Node( package=&`#39`;piracer&`#39`;, namespace=[LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;)], executable=&`#39`;ackermann_controller&`#39`;, name=&`#39`;ackermann_controller&`#39`;, parameters=[bridge_topics] ) launch_me.add_action(car_name_arg) launch_me.add_action(hardware_arg) if LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;should_launch_hardware&`#39`;) == &`#39`;true&`#39`;: launch_me.add_action(hardware_launch) launch_me.add_action(ackermann_node) return launch_me Is it possible to use a launch argument as a conditional in a launch file? EDIT: Solved thanks to djchopp! To properly add the conditional, I had to do four things: Add an import statement for IfCondition Add a launch configuration, which I called should_launch_hardware. Add the condition to the hardware_launch launch action. Remove the useless if-statement around adding the hardware_launch action to launch_me. It will be added every time, but using the condition should_launch_hardware, ROS will decide if it actually gets executed or not. A summary of the additions I made to the code are shown below: from launch.conditions import IfCondition `#1` .... should_launch_hardware = LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;should_launch_hardware&`#39`;) `#2` .... hardware_launch = IncludeLaunchDescription( PythonLaunchDescriptionSource([launch_directory, &`#39`;/hardware_nodes.launch.py&`#39`;]), launch_arguments={&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;: LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;)}.items(), condition=IfCondition(should_launch_hardware) `#3` ) The entire new launch file looks like this: # Standard library imports from os.path import join # Third-party imports from ament_index_python.packages import get_package_share_directory from launch_ros.actions import Node from launch import LaunchDescription from launch.actions import DeclareLaunchArgument from launch.actions import IncludeLaunchDescription from launch.conditions import IfCondition `#1` from launch.launch_description_sources import PythonLaunchDescriptionSource from launch.substitutions import LaunchConfiguration def generate_launch_description(): bridge_topics = join(get_package_share_directory(&`#39`;piracer&`#39`;), &`#39`;config&`#39`;, &`#39`;ackermann_bridge_topics.yaml&`#39`;) launch_directory = get_package_share_directory(&`#39`;piracer&`#39`;) should_launch_hardware = LaunchConfiguration(&`#39`;should_launch_hardware&`#39`;) `#2` launch_me = LaunchDescription() car_name_arg = DeclareLaunchArgument(&`#39`;car_name&`#39`;, default_value=&`#39`;car1&`#39`;, description=&`#39`;Sets the namespace for this car.&`#39`;) har…[truncated]

Citations:

• 1: https://docs.ros.org/en/jazzy/p/launch/launch.conditions.if_condition.html
• 2: https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/launch/launch.conditions.if_condition.html
• 3: https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/p/launch/launch.actions.html
• 4: https://github.com/ros2/launch/blob/master/launch/launch/actions/execute_process.py
• 5: https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/99579/is-it-possible-to-have-a-conditional-in-a-launch-file-using-declarelaunchargumen
• 6: GitHub issue 5233 in ros-navigation/navigation2 (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
• 7: https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Tutorials/Intermediate/Launch/Using-Substitutions.html
• 8: https://ftp.udx.icscoe.jp/ros/ros_docs_mirror/en/rolling/Tutorials/Launch/Using-Substitutions.html

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Use one ROS launch boolean interpretation for all Fuse decisions. IfCondition treats use_fuse:=1 as true, so the Fuse estimator and odom_world_drift start. The manual expression treats 1 as false and selects /odom instead of /odom_filtered. The unsupported-combination warning has the same mismatch and is bypassed for numeric boolean values. Use the ROS launch boolean parser, or an equivalent shared helper, for both manual checks.

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In `@src/hangar_sim/launch/sim/navigation_launch.py` around lines 79 - 80, Update
the odom_topic selection and unsupported-combination warning checks to use the
same ROS launch boolean interpretation as IfCondition, including numeric values
such as use_fuse:=1. Reuse a shared parsed boolean or equivalent helper for all
Fuse decisions, while preserving the existing /odom_filtered versus /odom
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Declare the Fuse runtime dependency.

use_fuse now defaults to true. The launch file starts fuse_optimizers/fixed_lag_smoother_node, but this manifest does not declare fuse_optimizers.

A clean rosdep installation can omit the executable. The default launch then fails before /odom_filtered becomes available. Add <exec_depend>fuse_optimizers</exec_depend>. The ROS package index identifies fixed_lag_smoother_node as part of fuse_optimizers. (index.ros.org)

Proposed fix

   <exec_depend>dual_laser_merger</exec_depend>
+  <exec_depend>fuse_optimizers</exec_depend>
   <exec_depend>laser_filters</exec_depend>

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Do not treat missing error samples as zero error.

recorder4.py adds err_d and err_yaw only after the map -> base lookup and truth interpolation succeed. settled.py selects rows by cloud, so reachable quiet rows can omit both keys. The current get(..., 0) converts those missing samples to zero and biases both medians downward.

Filter each error list by its own key. Guard the final error print with if ed and ey: because statistics.median cannot process an empty list.

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-        ed = sorted(abs(r.get("err_d", 0)) for r in quiet)
-        ey = sorted(abs(math.degrees(r.get("err_yaw", 0))) for r in quiet)
+        ed = sorted(abs(r["err_d"]) for r in quiet if "err_d" in r)
+        ey = sorted(abs(math.degrees(r["err_yaw"])) for r in quiet if "err_yaw" in r)

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        if ed and ey:
            print(...)

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In `@src/hangar_sim/script/localization_analysis/settled.py` around lines 51 - 52,
Update the error sample construction in the settled analysis flow to include
only rows that contain their respective keys, rather than treating missing err_d
or err_yaw values as zero. In the final error reporting, guard the median
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- Around line 197-200: Update verify_arms_distinct to detect duplicate entries
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Reject duplicate arm entries before deduplication.

dict.fromkeys(arms) removes duplicate names before validation. As a result, --arms baseline,baseline passes this guard and runs identical arm output.

Validate duplicate entries before constructing rendered.

Proposed fix

 def verify_arms_distinct(arms):
     """Abort unless every requested arm writes different text from every other one."""
+    unique_arms = list(dict.fromkeys(arms))
+    if len(unique_arms) != len(arms):
+        raise SystemExit("duplicate arm names are not allowed")
     rendered = {
         arm: tuple(render_arm(os.path.join(OBJ_DIR, f), arm) for f in FILES)
-        for arm in dict.fromkeys(arms)
+        for arm in unique_arms
     }

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	rendered = {
	arm: tuple(render_arm(os.path.join(OBJ_DIR, f), arm) for f in FILES)
	for arm in dict.fromkeys(arms)
	}
	unique_arms = list(dict.fromkeys(arms))
	if len(unique_arms) != len(arms):
	raise SystemExit("duplicate arm names are not allowed")
	rendered = {
	arm: tuple(render_arm(os.path.join(OBJ_DIR, f), arm) for f in FILES)
	for arm in unique_arms
	}

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200, Update verify_arms_distinct to detect duplicate entries in arms before
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