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I’d have to see a bag to be sure, but your IMU covariance matrices are definitely ill-conditioned. Try to invert a 3x3 matrix where all the values are the same:

https://m.matrix.reshish.com/inverse.php

You need to put zeros in the off-diagonal entries.

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