AP_VisualOdom/Scripting: support Odometry's quality, add autoswitching script #26277
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This improves the safety of using the ModalAI VOXL sensor by adding support for automatic switching to optical flow when the sensor loses its position estimate.
The detailed changes are:
This has been tested in SITL and on a real vehicle and greatly improves handling of ModalAI camera failures.
Below is a screen-shot showing that SITL is sending a quality of 50.
Below is a screen shot of a test to ensure the VISO_QUAL_MIN was working. When the required quality was increased above 50, SITL's simulated vicon values were not fused, the EKF failsafe triggered and the vehicle switched to Land mode