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I want to rotate the whole value of a 3d vector into one axis using quaternion rotations.

The reason behind is that I want to align the X and Y Axis of my smartphone with the X and Y Axis of my vehicle in order to detect lateral and longitudinal acceleration separated on these two axis. Therefore I want to detect the first straight acceleration of the car and rotate the whole acceleration value into the heading axis (X-Axis) of the phone assuming a straight forward motion.

How do I achieve this?

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  • $\begingroup$ So you know the rotation you want to apply, but just don't know how quaternions work? $\endgroup$
    – fibonatic
    Jun 8, 2016 at 17:13
  • $\begingroup$ @fibonatic I know that if I accelerate forward for the first time with my car, I will get the corresponding sensor value mixed on two axes (e.g. X and Y-Axes). I also know the axis I would like to put the whole sensor value in (e.g. the X axis). $\endgroup$
    – R. Doe
    Jun 8, 2016 at 19:47

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  • Use the average magnitude of X,Y as the acceleration vector.
  • Get the angle between this vector and the (1,0).
  • Create a quaternion with this vector that looks something like (cos(angle/2),0,0,-1)
  • Multiple all future acceleration results
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  • $\begingroup$ That is sort of the way I used to do it now. Thank you! $\endgroup$
    – R. Doe
    Jun 10, 2016 at 7:12

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