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Batch 58 — Cycle 1 Report

Date: 2026-05-14 Tasks: AZ-358 (C4 OpenCVGtsamPoseEstimator — Marginals path), AZ-361 (C4 Jacobian + thermal-driven hybrid) Verdict: COMPLETE — PASS_WITH_WARNINGS

Summary

Implemented the single C4 production-default PoseEstimator strategy (OpenCVGtsamPoseEstimator) covering both the AZ-358 Marginals path and the AZ-361 thermal-throttle Jacobian fallback in one file. Per- frame mode dispatch reads thermal_state.thermal_throttle_active at estimate(...) entry and routes to either _estimate_marginals_path (production default) or _estimate_jacobian_path (degraded fallback) with zero buffering or hysteresis (Invariant 4).

Both paths share _run_pnp (OpenCV solvePnPRansac with SOLVEPNP_IPPE on best-candidate inliers, converting tile pixels → ENU world points via the shared WgsConverter + a configurable tile_size_px), _jacobian_covariance (a cv2.projectPoints-derived 6×6 information matrix with ridge regularisation), _assemble_pose_estimate (WGS84 conversion + quaternion + FDR-friendly DTO assembly), and the pose.frame_done FDR record. The Marginals path additionally builds a local gtsam.NonlinearFactorGraph + Values carrying a single PriorFactorPose3 (initial covariance Jacobian-derived) and flushes both into C5's iSAM2 graph via the now-widened ISam2GraphHandle.update(graph, values, None) (Option B per the batch-58 design discussion); posterior covariance comes from handle.compute_marginals().marginalCovariance(pose_key). The Jacobian path uses the Jacobian-derived covariance directly as the emitted covariance and SKIPS the iSAM2 factor add (Invariant 12 — under throttle the graph stops growing; recovery is automatic).

Two documented deviations from the task wording (now mirrored in the updated AZ-358 spec):

1. PriorFactorPose3 instead of GenericProjectionFactorCal3DS2. Mathematically equivalent on the pose marginal (same Fisher information), avoids unbounded landmark variables in iSAM2, and requires no new tile-pixel-to-3D-world georef infrastructure beyond what WgsConverter already ships.
2. handle.update(graph, values, None) instead of handle.update(). The C5-side ISam2GraphHandleImpl requires explicit (graph, values, timestamps) arguments — C4 builds the per-call diff itself rather than relying on a hidden C5 staging buffer (Option B).

AZ-361 supersedes AZ-358's NotImplementedError("Jacobian path owned by Hybrid task") placeholder: under throttle, the Jacobian path now runs as the documented production fallback. A CovarianceDegradedWarning is emitted via warnings.warn (NEVER raised) and a paired c4.pose.covariance_degraded WARN log + FDR record are emitted, all three rate-limited to one emission per covariance_degraded_warn_window_ns (default 60 s) via an injected monotonic Clock.

ISam2GraphHandle widened from one method (get_pose_key) to five (add_factor, update, compute_marginals, last_anchor_age_ms). The C5-side ISam2GraphHandleImpl already provides the superset, so no C5 source change is required this batch. add_factor is kept on the Protocol for producer/consumer symmetry but is NOT called by C4 under Option B (factors travel through the local graph passed to update).

Pose-factory composition path now threads fdr_client + clock from the runtime root into the concrete estimator, with both optional — AZ-355-style protocol-only tests that wire a fake factory still work unchanged.

Files added / modified

Added (2)

• src/gps_denied_onboard/components/c4_pose/opencv_gtsam_estimator.py — OpenCVGtsamPoseEstimator + module-level create + register. Both paths plus all per-path helpers (~970 LOC total). Heavy module docstring documents the two deviations above and the tile-pixel-to-ENU-world georef workaround.
• tests/unit/c4_pose/test_az358_361_opencv_gtsam_estimator.py — 21 tests covering AZ-358 AC-1..AC-11 plus AZ-361 AC-1..AC-13 (the AZ-358 AC-8 row is replaced by the AZ-361 dispatch-now-runs-Jacobian test; AZ-361 AC-11 RMSE-ratio is informational per spec and not asserted — recorded as a Low Spec-Gap in the batch review).

Modified (7)

• src/gps_denied_onboard/components/c4_pose/_isam2_handle.py — Protocol widened from get_pose_key only to all five methods (add_factor, update, compute_marginals, last_anchor_age_ms) with C4-facing docstrings explaining Option B and the producer/consumer symmetry invariant with C5's superset.
• src/gps_denied_onboard/components/c4_pose/config.py — three new fields with validation: covariance_degraded_warn_window_ns (AZ-361 rate-limit window, default 60 s), ridge_regularisation_epsilon (AZ-361 ridge added to JᵀJ/σ², default 1e-9), tile_size_px (AZ-358 satellite-tile pixel dimensions, default 256).
• src/gps_denied_onboard/fdr_client/records.py — registered two new payload kinds: pose.frame_done (per-call telemetry, both success and PnpFailureError paths) and pose.covariance_degraded (per- window AZ-361 throttle exposure).
• src/gps_denied_onboard/runtime_root/pose_factory.py — build_pose_estimator now accepts optional fdr_client and clock parameters and threads them through to the concrete strategy. The ISam2GraphHandle runtime-check error message updated to mention all four widened methods.
• tests/unit/c4_pose/test_az355_pose_protocol.py — _FakeISam2GraphHandle widened to satisfy all five Protocol methods; new test_ac10_isam2_graph_handle_rejects_partial_surface asserts a partial implementation now fails the isinstance gate; test_factory_lazy_imports_when_registry_empty flipped from "expect ImportError" to "lazy import succeeds and returns a PoseEstimator" now that the concrete module ships.
• tests/unit/test_az272_fdr_record_schema.py — round-trip fixture payloads added for both new kinds.
• _docs/02_tasks/todo/AZ-358_c4_opencv_gtsam_marginals.md (now in _docs/02_tasks/done/) — AC-7 + Outcome steps e/f rewritten to document the Option B (local graph+values + update(g, v, None)) approach and the PriorFactorPose3 deviation.

Task Results

Task	Status	Files Modified	Focused tests	AC Coverage	Issues
AZ-358	Done	1 added / 6 modified	21/21 pass	11/11 covered (AC-8 superseded by AZ-361)	Two documented deviations from spec wording; both mirrored back into the spec
AZ-361	Done	0 added / 0 modified (shared file)	21/21 pass	12/13 covered (AC-11 informational; see review F5)	None blocking

AC Test Coverage: 23/24 covered (one informational AC documented)

• AZ-358 AC-1..AC-7, AC-9, AC-10 (two tests), AC-11 — all directly asserted.
• AZ-358 AC-8 superseded by AZ-361 (no NotImplementedError ships); replacement test test_az358_ac8_replacement_throttle_now_runs_jacobian_path documents the supersession.
• AZ-361 AC-1..AC-10, AC-12, AC-13 — all directly asserted.
• AZ-361 AC-11 (Jacobian RMSE within 1.10× Marginals on synthetic baseline) — not asserted; spec explicitly tags this AC informational and non-blocking.

Code Review Verdict: PASS_WITH_WARNINGS

See _docs/03_implementation/reviews/batch_58_review.md. Five findings recorded — Medium ×2, Low ×3 — none blocking:

1. F1 Medium / Maintainability — duplicated FDR-error + ERROR-log + raise blocks across both paths; extract a _fail(...) helper.
2. F2 Medium / Performance — _tile_pixels_to_enu_world runs per-point pyproj calls in a Python loop; vectorise via the Transformer's array signature.
3. F3 Low / Style — bare except Exception: pass for GTSAM duplicate-insert; prefer Values.exists(key) pre-check.
4. F4 Low / Performance — cv2.projectPoints called twice on the Marginals path (residuals + Jacobian); request both outputs from a single call.
5. F5 Low / Spec-Gap — AZ-361 AC-11 RMSE-ratio not asserted (informational per spec).

No Critical / High / Architecture findings. Auto-fix not required.

Auto-Fix Attempts: 0

Stuck Agents: None

Tests Run

• Focused suite (tests/unit/c4_pose/ + tests/unit/test_az272_fdr_record_schema.py): 101 passed.
• Full repo suite: 1958 passed, 1 failed, 84 skipped. The single failure (tests/unit/c12_operator_orchestrator/test_cli_console_script.py::test_cold_start_under_500ms_p99) is an NFR cold-start timing assertion (500 ms hard limit) failing on macOS dev hardware (700-1100 ms observed). Unrelated to the C4 / FDR surface and pre-existing on this host.

Next Batch

This closes the C4 pose-estimator track for cycle 1. The runtime root now has:

• C2 VPR (AZ-338..341)
• C3 cross-domain matchers (AZ-345..347)
• C3.5 conditional refiner (AZ-349)
• C4 pose estimator (AZ-358 + AZ-361) ← this batch

Downstream consumers that can now wire end-to-end at runtime: C5 state estimator (receives PoseEstimate with native 6×6 covariance for the satellite-anchor path), C8 outbound FC message (gets the WGS84 pose

• quaternion + covariance trace), C13 FDR forensics (gets pose.* records).