/* * location_double.cpp * * This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the * Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along * with this program. If not, see . */ /* this is for double precision functions related to the location structure */ #define ALLOW_DOUBLE_MATH_FUNCTIONS #include #include #include "AP_Math.h" #include "location.h" /* these are not currently used. They should be moved to location_double.cpp if we do enable them in the future */ void wgsllh2ecef(const Vector3d &llh, Vector3d &ecef) { double d = WGS84_E * sin(llh[0]); double N = WGS84_A / sqrt(1 - d*d); ecef[0] = (N + llh[2]) * cos(llh[0]) * cos(llh[1]); ecef[1] = (N + llh[2]) * cos(llh[0]) * sin(llh[1]); ecef[2] = ((1 - WGS84_E*WGS84_E)*N + llh[2]) * sin(llh[0]); } void wgsecef2llh(const Vector3d &ecef, Vector3d &llh) { /* Distance from polar axis. */ const double p = sqrt(ecef[0]*ecef[0] + ecef[1]*ecef[1]); /* Compute longitude first, this can be done exactly. */ if (!is_zero(p)) llh[1] = atan2(ecef[1], ecef[0]); else llh[1] = 0; /* If we are close to the pole then convergence is very slow, treat this is a * special case. */ if (p < WGS84_A * double(1e-16)) { llh[0] = copysign(M_PI_2, ecef[2]); llh[2] = fabs(ecef[2]) - WGS84_B; return; } /* Calculate some other constants as defined in the Fukushima paper. */ const double P = p / WGS84_A; const double e_c = sqrt(1 - WGS84_E*WGS84_E); const double Z = fabs(ecef[2]) * e_c / WGS84_A; /* Initial values for S and C correspond to a zero height solution. */ double S = Z; double C = e_c * P; /* Neither S nor C can be negative on the first iteration so * starting prev = -1 will not cause and early exit. */ double prev_C = -1; double prev_S = -1; double A_n, B_n, D_n, F_n; /* Iterate a maximum of 10 times. This should be way more than enough for all * sane inputs */ for (int i=0; i<10; i++) { /* Calculate some intermmediate variables used in the update step based on * the current state. */ A_n = sqrt(S*S + C*C); D_n = Z*A_n*A_n*A_n + WGS84_E*WGS84_E*S*S*S; F_n = P*A_n*A_n*A_n - WGS84_E*WGS84_E*C*C*C; B_n = double(1.5) * WGS84_E*S*C*C*(A_n*(P*S - Z*C) - WGS84_E*S*C); /* Update step. */ S = D_n*F_n - B_n*S; C = F_n*F_n - B_n*C; /* The original algorithm as presented in the paper by Fukushima has a * problem with numerical stability. S and C can grow very large or small * and over or underflow a double. In the paper this is acknowledged and * the proposed resolution is to non-dimensionalise the equations for S and * C. However, this does not completely solve the problem. The author caps * the solution to only a couple of iterations and in this period over or * underflow is unlikely but as we require a bit more precision and hence * more iterations so this is still a concern for us. * * As the only thing that is important is the ratio T = S/C, my solution is * to divide both S and C by either S or C. The scaling is chosen such that * one of S or C is scaled to unity whilst the other is scaled to a value * less than one. By dividing by the larger of S or C we ensure that we do * not divide by zero as only one of S or C should ever be zero. * * This incurs an extra division each iteration which the author was * explicityl trying to avoid and it may be that this solution is just * reverting back to the method of iterating on T directly, perhaps this * bears more thought? */ if (S > C) { C = C / S; S = 1; } else { S = S / C; C = 1; } /* Check for convergence and exit early if we have converged. */ if (fabs(S - prev_S) < double(1e-16) && fabs(C - prev_C) < double(1e-16)) { break; } else { prev_S = S; prev_C = C; } } A_n = sqrt(S*S + C*C); llh[0] = copysign(1.0, ecef[2]) * atan(S / (e_c*C)); llh[2] = (p*e_c*C + fabs(ecef[2])*S - WGS84_A*e_c*A_n) / sqrt(e_c*e_c*C*C + S*S); }