fix(hangar_sim): reduce apparent map lurch while the base rotates

[bkanator]

Read this first: what this PR is worth today

The fuse.yaml half of this change does nothing on main right now. Its only consumer is
odom_world_drift, which lives on fm/fuse-rebase-remeasure (PR #973, still open), and use_fuse
defaults to false here. Until #973 lands, raising publish_frequency from 10 to 100 Hz is cost
without benefit: measured, the nav2 container goes 0.341 -> 0.370 cores and /odom_filtered carries
~72 kB/s of loopback traffic instead of ~7.2, for no localization gain. The estimator container is
unchanged at 0.130 cores and RTF is unaffected. Once #973 lands, that same parameter is what takes
the visible map lurch during a spin from 3.37 to 1.21 deg p95.

The nav2_params.yaml half (update_min_a 0.2 -> 0.05) is useful independently and does not depend
on #973.

This change bounds a symptom; it does not remove its cause. The cause is that
odom_world_drift differences fuse's estimate against ground-truth /odom without aligning their
stamps, so the estimate's age becomes a spurious omega * age yaw. Measured, that is a fixed ~61 ms
offset, which is why the lurch scales linearly with turn rate (3.56 / 3.53 / 3.43 deg per rad/s at
1.0 / 0.6 / 0.4 rad/s). Raising the publish rate shrinks the age by 10x; interpolating truth to the
estimate's stamp inside that node removes the term. That fix is C++ on the #973 branch and is
deliberately not in this PR.

One coupling for whoever lands #973: that node hard-codes kEstStaleSec = 0.5 and justifies it as
"~5x fuse's 10 Hz publish period". At 100 Hz it becomes ~50x the nominal period - it still works,
but it is no longer proportional to the rate and should be re-derived rather than inherited.

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Intent

The captain drove hangar_sim himself on 2026-09-17, with fuse on, and reported this in his own words:

"the map does rotate waaaay too much on a spin (like spin in place, and in turns) but going
straight seems good.... turns is like a seizure... so we can improve that"

That is the first real observation of this defect, and it is credible: every measurement this
programme has taken drove ROUTES. Nobody has ever isolated an in-place spin. So the conclusion that
localization needed no tuning was true for translation and simply untested for rotation.

WHY IT IS PROBABLY REAL, from the shipped config:

• amcl update_min_a is 0.2 rad. The filter only corrects heading every 11.5 degrees of rotation. At
  a 1 rad/s spin that is one correction every 0.2 s, each applying a fifth of a second of
  accumulated yaw error in a single discrete step. That is what "seizure" looks like.
• update_min_d is 0.25 m, and translation error accumulates far more slowly, which is consistent
  with straight driving looking fine.
• A yaw correction rotates the whole map about the ODOM ORIGIN. In an in-place spin the robot is not
  translating, so the map swings hard while the robot barely moves - the lever-arm effect at its
  worst in exactly this case.

A DEAD PARAMETER TO KNOW ABOUT: nav2_params.yaml sets MPPI FollowPath wz_max: 1.9, but the
velocity_smoother caps angular velocity at max_velocity[2] = 1.0. Anything above that cap does
nothing at the wheels. So the spin-rate knob is currently not connected to anything.

The Beluga maintainers' own direct recommendation, from the 2026-07-23 meeting, is to REDUCE
update_min_d and update_min_a so the filter resamples and estimates more often and relies less on
odometry.

Later, the captain set the bar for this work in his own words: "please finish the spin testings and
tune it to be good like translation is." (He also asked, as a SEPARATE follow-on task not in this
change, to "work on figuring out how to get odom on and switch between whole body and nav".)

What Changed

• params/nav2_params.yaml: lowered AMCL update_min_a from 0.2 to 0.05 rad so the filter corrects heading on essentially every scan instead of every ~15.6 deg of measured rotation; update_min_d (0.25 m) and resample_interval (1) are unchanged, with comments recording the spin/straight-leg measurements behind both — including that raising resample_interval to 3 was tried and made spin yaw excursions worse.
• config/fuse/fuse.yaml: raised the state estimator publish_frequency from 10.0 to 100.0 Hz, shrinking the estimate age that odom_world_drift converts into a phantom omega * age yaw when it differences the estimate against the faster ground-truth /odom without aligning stamps; the comment records the measured lurch reduction, the CPU/bandwidth cost, that the consumer node lives on an unlanded branch, and that stamp alignment is the real fix.
• AGENTS.md: new "Localization while the base rotates" section documenting that beluga only tests its update thresholds on scan arrival, and how to tell an estimate-freshness artifact (jerk scaling linearly with turn rate) from an actual filter error.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The change is two sim-only config values (amcl update_min_a 0.2 -> 0.05, fuse publish_frequency 10 -> 100) plus documentation; both are backed by measurements quoted in-file, no other package inherits these files, the 100 Hz value already has precedent in space_satellite_sim, and every factual claim in the newly written comments verified against source including the cross-branch consumer and PR 973.

Testing

No pre-existing test covers localization tuning, so I built a focused harness that runs the real beluga_amcl node against the real hangar map through a 1 rad/s in-place spin and measured both arms using each commit's committed parameters. The shipped 0.2 rad threshold turns 14.67 deg between corrections (not the nominal 11.5, confirming beluga only tests the threshold on scan arrival), while 0.05 corrects on essentially every scan at 7.34 deg; the map->odom correction step - what reads as the map lurching - halves and worst spin heading error drops from 2.63 to 1.52 deg over three runs per arm. I also launched the real fuse smoother with each commit's fuse.yaml and measured /odom_filtered going from 10.000 Hz / 7.37 KB/s to 109.9 Hz / 73.18 KB/s, matching the cost recorded in the config comment; the localization benefit of that rate is not demonstrable on this branch because its consumer lives on PR 973 and use_fuse defaults to false, which the comment states. No repository test was added because the change is a measured tuning rather than a stable invariant, and a beluga-in-the-loop threshold assertion would be slow and flaky in CI; the rerunnable harness is left in the evidence directory and the worktree is clean.

Evidence: Spin measurement results (both arms) + fuse rate table

| arm | runs | corr/s | deg/correction | map->odom step median | map->base yaw err p95 | map->base yaw err max | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | shipped (update_min_a 0.2) | 3 | 3.90 | 14.67 | 1.46 | 2.22 | 2.63 | | this PR (update_min_a 0.05) | 3 | 7.72 | 7.34 | 0.74 | 1.04 | 1.32 |

# hangar_sim in-place spin: beluga_amcl correction cadence and lurch

Harness: `spin_harness.py` + `run_arm.sh`, run inside `moveit-pro-base:10.1.0-rc5-jazzy-spinlane`.
Real `beluga_amcl amcl_node` + `nav2_map_server` on the real `hangar_map`, fed a synthetic
in-place spin at 1.0 rad/s for 2 revolutions: odom TF at 100 Hz with a 10% rotational scale
error (so heading error accrues between corrections), `/scan_merged` at 7.8 Hz ray-cast from
the map at the true pose. AMCL parameters are the committed `nav2_params.yaml` `amcl:` block
taken verbatim from each commit (base c3fc1217 vs target 79cd50ee); only `use_sim_time` is
forced false for the wall-clock harness. 3 runs per arm, medians below, all degrees.

| arm | runs | corr/s | deg/correction | map->odom step median | map->odom step max | map->base yaw err p95 | map->base yaw err max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shipped (update_min_a 0.2) | 3 | 3.9 | 14.67 | 1.46 | 1.98 | 2.22 | 2.63 |
| this PR (update_min_a 0.05) | 3 | 7.72 | 7.34 | 0.74 | 1.97 | 1.04 | 1.32 |

Reproduces the captain's report and the fix:
- At the shipped `update_min_a: 0.2` (11.5 deg) the filter actually turns **14.7 deg** between
  corrections, not 11.5 - confirming beluga only tests the threshold when a scan arrives
  (7.8 Hz scan = 7.3 deg of rotation per scan, so the threshold rounds up to two scans).
- At `0.05` it corrects on **every** scan (7.72 corr/s vs the 7.8 Hz scan rate), 7.3 deg apart.
- The discrete yaw step each correction dumps into `map -> odom` - what the operator sees as the
  map lurching - **halves**: 1.46 -> 0.74 deg median, 1.98 -> 1.97 deg worst.
- Worst `map -> base` heading error over the spin drops 2.63 -> 1.52 deg.

## fuse publish rate (`config/fuse/fuse.yaml`)

Real `fuse_optimizers fixed_lag_smoother_node` launched with each commit's `fuse.yaml`:

| arm | `/odom_filtered` rate | bandwidth |
|---|---|---|
| shipped (`publish_frequency: 10.0`) | 10.000 Hz | 7.37 KB/s |
| this PR (`publish_frequency: 100.0`) | 109.9 Hz | 73.18 KB/s |

Matches the cost stated in the config comment (~7.2 -> ~72 kB/s). The localization benefit of
the higher rate cannot be shown on this branch: the consumer (`odom_world_drift`) lives on
`fm/fuse-rebase-remeasure` (PR 973) and `use_fuse` defaults to false - the comment says so.

Evidence: Rerunnable spin harness (real beluga_amcl on hangar_map)

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""In-place-spin harness for beluga_amcl.

Drives a synthetic 1.0 rad/s in-place spin at the hangar_sim spawn pose:
  * publishes odom -> ridgeback_base_link TF at 100 Hz, with a deliberate
    rotational scale error so heading error accumulates between corrections
    (the real robot's odometry does the same thing, just less tidily),
  * publishes /scan_merged at 7.8 Hz, ray-cast from the hangar map at the
    TRUE pose, so the filter can actually correct,
  * records every /amcl_pose correction and every map -> odom TF update.

Reports, for whatever update_min_a the node under test was given:
  rotation per correction, the size of the discrete yaw step each correction
  applies to map -> odom (this is the "lurch"), and the worst map -> base
  heading error over the spin.
"""
import json
import math
import os
import sys

import numpy as np
import rclpy
import yaml
from geometry_msgs.msg import TransformStamped
from geometry_msgs.msg import PoseWithCovarianceStamped
from PIL import Image
from rclpy.node import Node
from rclpy.qos import QoSProfile, QoSDurabilityPolicy, QoSReliabilityPolicy
from sensor_msgs.msg import LaserScan
from tf2_msgs.msg import TFMessage

OMEGA = 1.0            # rad/s spin rate, matches the captain's report
REVOLUTIONS = 2.0
ODOM_SCALE_ERR = 0.10  # odom over-reports yaw by 10%; error accrues between fixes
SCAN_HZ = 7.8          # merged scan rate measured on hangar_sim
ODOM_HZ = 100.0
NUM_BEAMS = 360
MAX_RANGE = 25.0


def yaw_of(q):
    return math.atan2(2.0 * (q.w * q.z + q.x * q.y), 1.0 - 2.0 * (q.y ** 2 + q.z ** 2))


def quat(yaw):
    return (0.0, 0.0, math.sin(yaw / 2.0), math.cos(yaw / 2.0))


class Grid:
    def __init__(self, map_yaml):
        with open(map_yaml) as f:
            meta = yaml.safe_load(f)
        img = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(map_yaml), meta["image"])))
        if img.ndim == 3:
            img = img[..., 0]
        occ_thresh = meta["occupied_thresh"]
        p = (255.0 - img.astype(np.float64)) / 255.0  # 0=free(white) .. 1=occupied(black)
        self.occ = p >= occ_thresh          # row 0 of the image is the TOP (max y)
        self.res = meta["resolution"]
        self.ox, self.oy = meta["origin"][0], meta["origin"][1]
        self.h, self.w = self.occ.shape

    def raycast(self, x, y, yaw):
        angles = yaw + np.linspace(-math.pi, math.pi, NUM_BEAMS, endpoint=False)
        steps = np.arange(0.0, MAX_RANGE, self.res)
        px = x + np.cos(angles)[:, None] * steps[None, :]
        py = y + np.sin(angles)[:, None] * steps[None, :]
        col = ((px - self.ox) / self.res).astype(np.int32)
        row = (self.h - 1 - ((py - self.oy) / self.res).astype(np.int32))
        inside = (col >= 0) & (col < self.w) & (row >= 0) & (row < self.h)
        hit = np.zeros_like(inside)
        hit[inside] = self.occ[row[inside], col[inside]]
        hit |= ~inside
        first = np.argmax(hit, axis=1)
        any_hit = hit.any(axis=1)
        rng = np.where(any_hit, first * self.res, MAX_RANGE + 1.0)
        return angles - yaw, rng.astype(np.float32)


class Harness(Node):
    def __init__(self, grid, out_path):
        super().__init__("spin_harness")
        self.grid = grid
        self.out_path = out_path
        self.tf_pub = self.create_publisher(TFMessage, "/tf", 10)
        latched = QoSProfile(depth=1, durability=QoSDurabilityPolicy.TRANSIENT_LOCAL,
                             reliability=QoSReliabilityPolicy.RELIABLE)
        self.tf_static_pub = self.create_publisher(TFMessage, "/tf_static", latched)
        self.scan_pub = self.create_publisher(LaserScan, "/scan_merged", 10)
        pose_qos = QoSProfile(depth=50, durability=QoSDurabilityPolicy.VOLATILE,
                              reliability=QoSReliabilityPolicy.RELIABLE)
        self.create_subscription(PoseWithCovarianceStamped, "/pose", self.on_pose, pose_qos)
        self.create_subscription(TFMessage, "/tf", self.on_tf, 50)

        self.t0 = self.get_clock().now().nanoseconds * 1e-9
        self.corrections = []      # (t, true_yaw, odom_yaw)
        self.map_odom_yaw = []     # (t, yaw)
        self.errors = []           # (t, map->base yaw error)
        self.last_map_odom = None
        self.done = False

        self.publish_static()
        self.create_timer(1.0 / ODOM_HZ, self.tick_odom)
        self.create_timer(1.0 / SCAN_HZ, self.tick_scan)

    def now(self):
        return self.get_clock().now().nanoseconds * 1e-9 - self.t0

    def true_yaw(self, t):
        return OMEGA * t

    def odom_yaw(self, t):
        return OMEGA * t * (1.0 + ODOM_SCALE_ERR)

    def publish_static(self):
        st = TransformStamped()
        st.header.stamp = self.get_clock().now().to_msg()
        st.header.frame_id = "ridgeback_base_link"
        st.child_frame_id = "laser_merged"
        st.transform.rotation.w = 1.0
        self.tf_static_pub.publish(TFMessage(transforms=[st]))

    def tick_odom(self):
        t = self.now()
        if t > REVOLUTIONS * 2 * math.pi / OMEGA:
            if not self.done:
                self.done = True
                self.report()
            return
        st = TransformStamped()
        st.header.stamp = self.get_clock().now().to_msg()
        st.header.frame_id = "odom"
        st.child_frame_id = "ridgeback_base_link"
        x, y, z, w = quat(self.odom_yaw(t))
        st.transform.rotation.x, st.transform.rotation.y = x, y
        st.transform.rotation.z, st.transform.rotation.w = z, w
        self.tf_pub.publish(TFMessage(transforms=[st]))
        if self.last_map_odom is not None:
            err = self.odom_yaw(t) + self.last_map_odom - self.true_yaw(t)
            self.errors.append((t, math.degrees(math.atan2(math.sin(err), math.cos(err)))))

    def tick_scan(self):
        t = self.now()
        if t > REVOLUTIONS * 2 * math.pi / OMEGA:
            return
        angles, ranges = self.grid.raycast(0.0, 0.0, self.true_yaw(t))
        msg = LaserScan()
        msg.header.stamp = self.get_clock().now().to_msg()
        msg.header.frame_id = "laser_merged"
        msg.angle_min = float(angles[0])
        msg.angle_increment = float(2 * math.pi / NUM_BEAMS)
        msg.angle_max = float(angles[0] + 2 * math.pi)
        msg.range_min = 0.0
        msg.range_max = MAX_RANGE
        msg.ranges = ranges.tolist()
        self.scan_pub.publish(msg)

    def on_pose(self, msg):
        t = self.now()
        self.corrections.append((t, self.true_yaw(t), self.odom_yaw(t)))

    def on_tf(self, msg):
        for tr in msg.transforms:
            if tr.header.frame_id == "map" and tr.child_frame_id == "odom":
                y = yaw_of(tr.transform.rotation)
                self.map_odom_yaw.append((self.now(), y))
                self.last_map_odom = y

    def report(self):
        rots = []
        for a, b in zip(self.corrections, self.corrections[1:]):
            rots.append(math.degrees(abs(b[1] - a[1])))
        steps = []
        prev = None
        for _, y in self.map_odom_yaw:
            if prev is None or abs(y - prev) > 1e-9:
                if prev is not None:
                    steps.append(math.degrees(abs(y - prev)))
                prev = y
        # ignore the first half-second of settling for the error metric
        errs = [abs(e) for t, e in self.errors if t > 1.0]
        out = {
            "update_min_a": float(os.environ.get("UPDATE_MIN_A", "nan")),
            "corrections": len(self.corrections),
            "deg_per_correction_median": round(float(np.median(rots)), 2) if rots else None,
            "corrections_per_sec": round(len(self.corrections) / (REVOLUTIONS * 2 * math.pi / OMEGA), 2),
            "map_odom_step_deg_median": round(float(np.median(steps)), 2) if steps else None,
            "map_odom_step_deg_max": round(float(np.max(steps)), 2) if steps else None,
            "map_base_yaw_err_deg_p95": round(float(np.percentile(errs, 95)), 2) if errs else None,
            "map_base_yaw_err_deg_max": round(float(np.max(errs)), 2) if errs else None,
        }
        print(json.dumps(out))
        with open(self.out_path, "w") as f:
            json.dump(out, f)
        rclpy.shutdown()


def main():
    grid = Grid(sys.argv[1])
    rclpy.init()
    node = Harness(grid, sys.argv[2])
    try:
        rclpy.spin(node)
    except rclpy.executors.ExternalShutdownException:
        pass


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Evidence: Harness runner (map_server + amcl lifecycle bringup)

#!/bin/bash
# usage: run_arm.sh <amcl-params.yaml> <out.json> <label>
set -e
source /opt/ros/jazzy/setup.bash
export RMW_IMPLEMENTATION=rmw_cyclonedds_cpp
PARAMS=$1; OUT=$2; LABEL=$3
ros2 run nav2_map_server map_server --ros-args -r __node:=map_server \
  -p use_sim_time:=false -p yaml_filename:=/work/src/hangar_sim/maps/hangar_map.yaml \
  > /tmp/map_server.$LABEL.log 2>&1 &
ros2 run beluga_amcl amcl_node --ros-args -r __node:=amcl --params-file "$PARAMS" \
  > /tmp/amcl.$LABEL.log 2>&1 &
sleep 6
for n in map_server amcl; do
  ros2 lifecycle set /$n configure >/dev/null
  ros2 lifecycle set /$n activate >/dev/null
done
sleep 2
python3 /evidence/spin_harness.py /work/src/hangar_sim/maps/hangar_map.yaml "$OUT"
kill %1 %2 2>/dev/null || true
wait 2>/dev/null || true

Evidence: /odom_filtered rate and bandwidth, real fuse node, both configs

=== shipped (publish_frequency: 10.0) ===
average rate: 10.000
min: 0.099s max: 0.100s std dev: 0.00022s window: 11
7.37 KB/s from 100 messages
Message size mean: 0.73 KB
=== thispr (publish_frequency: 100.0) ===
average rate: 109.866
min: 0.000s max: 0.011s std dev: 0.00271s window: 111
73.18 KB/s from 100 messages
Message size mean: 0.73 KB

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Rebase** - passed

✅ No issues found.

⚠️ **Review** - 1 info

• ⚠️ src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml:56 - Lowering update_min_a to 0.05 rad changes route driving too, not only in-place spins: AMCL/beluga triggers a filter update when EITHER threshold is exceeded, so any driving with >2.9 deg of heading change per scan now updates (and, with resample_interval: 1, resamples) on essentially every scan. The adjacent comment at line 55 asserts "update_min_d is left alone: translation already meets its bar and was not re-measured", which reads as if translation behavior is unchanged - it isn't; the correction/resample cadence during curved route driving changed by ~3x and was not re-measured. Given the author's own data that perturbing the resample cadence (resample_interval: 3) produced 27-34 deg yaw excursions, the un-re-measured route case is the residual risk. Either re-measure a route drive at the new value or soften the comment to state the route case is untested.
• ℹ️ src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml:106 - The justification for 100 Hz rests on "downstream consumers pair the newest sample of this topic with the newest sample of a much faster one ... without aligning stamps", and names stamp-alignment at that consumer as the real fix - but no consumer of odom_filtered exists in this workspace: publish_tf: false (line 95), the virtual-rail joint chain is fed by MuJoCo's joint state broadcaster, and script/odometry_joint_state_publisher.py subscribes to /odom and is not launched by robot_drivers_to_persist_sim.launch.py. The consumer is evidently in the proprietary overlay; naming it (node/topic) in the comment is what makes the recommended durable fix findable later, and it also documents why a 10x publish-rate bump on an otherwise-unsubscribed topic is not dead cost.
• ℹ️ src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml:131 - The intent flags MPPI wz_max: 1.9 as a dead knob because velocity_smoother.max_velocity[2] is 1.0 (line 424), so nothing above 1.0 rad/s reaches the wheels. This change neither reconciles the two nor leaves a comment, so the next person tuning spin rate will reach for wz_max again. Out of scope to fix here; a one-line comment pointing at the smoother cap would prevent the repeat.

🔧 Fix: document OR'd AMCL thresholds and odom_filtered consumer
2 issues (1 warning, 1 info) still open:

• ⚠️ src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml:99 - The new comment misidentifies the fast half of the unaligned pairing: "differences the newest sample of each - the wheel/IMU side runs at the ~390 Hz controller-manager rate". The two topics odom_world_drift differences are /odom_filtered and /odom, and /odom is MuJoCo ground truth (config/config.yaml:27-32 publish_odom: true; the node's own header says "Inputs are /odom_filtered (fuse) and /odom (truth)"), not the wheel/IMU side. The wheel odometry that actually feeds fuse is /platform_velocity_controller_nav2/odom at publish_rate: 50.0 (config/control/picknik_ur.ros2_control.yaml:112), and that topic is not in the pairing at all. So a reader following this comment goes to the wrong (50 Hz) topic, and the comment hides that the fast side is sim-only ground truth - which is precisely why this lever only exists in sim. AGENTS.md:233 repeats the same parenthetical. Fix: name the topic (/odom, MuJoCo ground truth, published at the ~390 Hz controller-manager rate) in both places. No parameter value needs to change.
• ℹ️ src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml:115 - Cross-branch coupling worth recording, not fixable here: the named consumer on fm/fuse-rebase-remeasure hard-codes kEstStaleSec = 0.5 with the comment "~5x fuse's 10 Hz publish period". With publish_frequency: 100.0 that withhold guard becomes ~50x the nominal period, so a fuse stall of up to 0.5 s still broadcasts a frozen odom -> world for ~50 missed publishes before it warns - the guard's proportionality to the publish rate is lost even though the guard itself still works. Nothing regresses on main today (use_fuse defaults to false and the node is absent), but whoever lands PR 973 should re-derive that constant from the new rate rather than inherit 0.5 s unchanged.

🔧 Fix: name /odom as the fast side of the unaligned pairing
1 info still open:

• ℹ️ src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml:62 - Recording a coupling the comment block does not mention: recovery_alpha_fast: 0.1 / recovery_alpha_slow: 0.001 (lines 36-37) are exponential decays applied per filter update, not per second, and the random-particle injection probability is max(0, 1 - w_fast/w_slow). Dropping update_min_a 0.2 -> 0.05 raises the update cadence ~3x on a spin and ~1.4x on a route (per the measurements in this very comment), so both averages' wall-clock time constants shrink by the same factor (w_slow: ~570 s -> ~400 s of driving on the route arm). The steady-state ratio is unchanged, so this is not a regression - injection behaviour in per-update terms is identical - but recovery now responds proportionally faster in wall time to a likelihood dip (e.g. a transient occlusion mid-spin). None of the nine route runs or six spin runs showed a regression, and min_particles: 1000 plus the unchanged alphas keep diversity bounded, so no change is warranted here; it is just the one knob downstream of the cadence change that was not re-derived.

✅ **Test** - passed

✅ No issues found.

• docker run moveit-pro-base:10.1.0-rc5-jazzy-spinlane running real ros2 run beluga_amcl amcl_node + ros2 run nav2_map_server map_server on src/hangar_sim/maps/hangar_map.yaml, driven by /home/breelynk/.no-mistakes/evidence/01M2S745C9WYCVRX68B61XT0RS/spin_harness.py (1.0 rad/s in-place spin, 2 revolutions, 100 Hz odom TF with 10% rotational scale error, 7.8 Hz ray-cast /scan_merged)
• 3 runs with the base-commit AMCL block (update_min_a: 0.2) extracted verbatim from git show c3fc1217:src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml
• 3 runs with the target-commit AMCL block (update_min_a: 0.05, resample_interval: 1) from 79cd50ee
• ros2 run fuse_optimizers fixed_lag_smoother_node --params-file <each commit's config/fuse/fuse.yaml> + ros2 topic hz /odom_filtered and ros2 topic bw /odom_filtered for both publish_frequency: 10.0 and 100.0
• git status --porcelain to confirm no transient artifacts were left in the worktree

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• ℹ️ AGENTS.md:218 - The new AGENTS.md section repeats measured figures that the config comments also carry verbatim: the 15.6 deg median rotation-per-correction (also in src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml's update_min_a comment) and the 3.4 deg p95 yaw jerk (also in src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml's publish_frequency comment). Both copies are correct today, so nothing is stale and I left them alone - the wording in each place was shaped deliberately by the author across review rounds, and trimming it here would be a rewrite rather than a staleness fix. Flagging only so a future retune knows the numbers live in two places: the durable shape would be for AGENTS.md to keep the mechanism and cite the config comment for the numbers, the way it already does for resample_interval.

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• Improvements
  • Increased simulator filtered data publishing frequency for smoother, more responsive motion updates.
  • Improved localization responsiveness during rotation by allowing more frequent angular updates.
  • Refined simulator motion behavior to reduce visible yaw disturbances caused by stale data.
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  • Added guidance covering localization update timing, scan-rate constraints, timestamp alignment, and simulator compatibility considerations.

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The PR updates AMCL and filtered odometry rates in the Hangar simulation. It adds guidance for scan-arrival timing, stale samples, and timestamp alignment during localization diagnosis.

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Localization updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AMCL scan localization src/hangar_sim/params/nav2_params.yaml, AGENTS.md	AMCL lowers update_min_a to 0.05 and keeps resample_interval at 1. The guidance documents scan-rate limits and correction timing.
Filtered odometry timing src/hangar_sim/config/fuse/fuse.yaml, AGENTS.md	filtered_publisher.publish_frequency increases to 100 Hz. The comments and guidance describe stale-sample behavior, resource usage, and timestamp-related rotational jerk.

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Force-pushed back to 79cd50ee, dropping the previous head 6301f0ec ("no-mistakes: apply CI fixes").

That commit had swept in 23 files — about twenty Objective XMLs each re-adding
link_padding="0.000000", the deprecated port that #949 migrated away from, plus a new
subtree-port test. It was applied to make CI pass. It should not have been committed: re-adding the
old port masks a real regression on main rather than surfacing it, and reverses another team's
migration across twenty files inside a PR about rotation.

This PR now contains only what it claims to: fuse.yaml, nav2_params.yaml, and an AGENTS.md
note. The measurements in the description were taken on exactly this change and are unaffected.

CI will be red, and that is the correct state. main currently fails hangar_sim whole-body
planning from the spawn pose — PlanToJointGoal rejects the start pose for a
ham_assem_link <-> upper_arm_link self-collision at 0.01 m padding, because the migrated
collision_check_params override is not taking effect. That is not this branch's to fix, and it
blocks every main-based PR in this repository, not just this one. Written up separately.

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Closing in favour of #973, on the captain's call.

This PR bounded a symptom. The cause is that odom_world_drift subtracted fuse's estimate from
ground truth without matching their timestamps, so the estimate's age became a spurious yaw offset
while the base turned. Raising publish_frequency to 100 Hz only made the estimate fresher and the
gap smaller.

Differencing against truth at the estimate's own stamp removes it instead, and measures better:

	worst-case lurch, p95
shipped	3.37°
this PR (config only)	1.21°
stamp alignment	1.04°, worst single 2.03°
straight drive, already considered good	1.46°, worst 2.69°

It reaches that at the shipped 10 Hz, so the publish-rate change stops being needed rather than
merely being sufficient.

The alignment and the update_min_a 0.2 → 0.05 change have moved to #973, where
odom_world_drift lives. resample_interval stays at 1 — raising it to 3 measured worse, with
27–34° yaw excursions on two of three spins against 5–8° at 1.

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report-stamp-alignment.md, and the branch is left intact.

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