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Develop a plan to deploy specific Covariance Matrix representations

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C++
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Description

This is a follwup to the pre Foxy Message API review

Create new Covariance representation (3x3 upper triangle and 6x6 upper triangle) as well as potential helper functions. Identify areas to leverage it and then determine a migration path. New messages can leverage it, but existing ones will have a long migration.

They can likely be also reduced to floats to cut the size of the message as well.

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked pre-Foxy Message API review and inventory the existing covariance message representations in this repository. Define the proposed 3x3 and 6x6 upper-triangle representations, possible helper functions, affected areas, and a migration path for existing messages. Include an assessment of reducing values to floats and document the resulting plan.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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