New Inertia Wheels Firmware 2.2.2

A Major upgrade for wireless immunity

Firmware 2.2.2 brings advances to Inertia Wheels wireless performance at the edges and patches rare but critical bugs.

NODO has been working closely with users who are pushing the boundaries of wireless performance. From these partnerships, we've made large gains in reducing issues that stem from difficult wireless environments. 

Firmware 2.2.2 focuses on improving the most extreme case: active interference. 

The symptoms could include, but are not limited to:
     • Gimbal jitters
     • Ronin 2 or receiver freezing
     • Ronin 2 recentering or changing modes
     • MōVI starting to recenter
     • Receiver rebooting

Major Changes

  • NEW Inertial Algorithm, which increases wireless edge case performance.

  • BUG FIXES across the Inertia Wheels and Receiver to address glitches and gimbal crashes in challenging wireless environments.

  • NEW Wireless Report and Motor Report, which provides more detail for troubleshooting.

  • Read the full release notes on the downloads page.

  • Full API and FX are now available over AUX for CANBUSTER and others.

How We Did It: Bug Fixes

Heather in NODO Support identified a trend in user-reported symptoms, which was traced to sets in challenging wireless environments. NODO enlisted these customers to help us rapidly identify and resolve the bugs.

To locate these bugs in the lab, NODO subjected Inertia Wheels to 10,000 times the amount of typical radio interference in the real world. Under these extreme conditions, NODO was able to induce probabilistically rare bugs that normally could go undetected for months or even years of normal use for many users.

NODO sent regular firmware patches to users to test for real-world resolution. Within a few weeks, NODO was able to completely eradicate the issues for users, and testers universally reported more confidence in 2.2.2 than previous firmware versions.

How We Did It: Inertial Algorithm

NODO has been hard at work developing a wide range of new technologies for the Torq Head. One of the key arenas is in streaming network communications. The Torq Head's AXIO network requires ultra-fast, low-latency, interference-tolerant communications.

Using the software we developed for the Mass in the Inertia Wheels, NODO has developed a physics-based algorithm for streaming communications called the "Inertial Algorithm". While it was designed for the Torq Head, we have implemented it now in the Inertia Wheels to enhance wireless stability.

The Wireless Receiver runs the Inertial Algorithm, which generates a real-time physics simulation of the hand wheels inside the Receiver. The output, the gimbal control signal, is then always generated from this model. If brief hits of wireless interference occur, the model is undisturbed. When communication is reestablished, the Inertial Algorithm gently updates the model based on the latest information. The faster data arrives, the more aggressively it updates the model. The slower data arrives, the more gently it updates the model. In this way, it maintains responsive control when the signal is good, and more smooth control when the signal is degraded. It is always self-tuning.

In order to build upon the wireless bug fixes in 2.2.2, NODO is introducing the Inertial Algorithm in the Inertial Wheels as an option under Wireless > LOS Handling. Classic LOS Bridging is also available.

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