Spikes in motor velocity when passing 0 position

[jviereck]

This is a long/known issue with the velocity reported by the cards. Basically, when passing the zero position of the motor, the velocity jumps and a spike shows up in the velocity plot. See the plot enclosed which is from squatting motions on solo12 using a slider box.

On the micro drivers we are running a velocity estimator. My best guess is that this estimator is buggy with respect to jumping at 2 pi angles.

[luator]

Unless this is handled differently in the SPI-version of the motor board, the velocity is estimated by the SpinTAC library (search for STPOSCONV_getVelocity/STPOSCONV_getVelocityFiltered in the code) which is unfortunately closed-source, so I'm afraid this will be difficult to debug :( There might be some parameters to influence its behaviour, I'm not sure.