Questions tagged [accelerometer]
Accelerometer is a sensor that measures acceleration.
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Why do 3-axis accelerometers seemingly have a left-handed coordinate system?
Careful inspection of page 35 (figure 58) of the ADXL345 datasheet shows that under gravitational loading only, the chip uses a left-handed coordinate system. My own experiments with this chip ...
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calculating position based on accelerometer data
Please help me with the following task. I have MPU 9150 from which I get acceleration/gyro and magnetometer data. What I'm currently interested in is to get the orientation and position of the robot. ...
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How to estimate yaw angle from tri-axis accelerometer and gyroscope
I would like to estimate the yaw angle from accelerometer and gyroscope data. For roll and pitch estimate I've used the following trigonometric equations:
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How much accuracy could I get position tracking with a 3-axis accelerometer and gyro sensor, and compass, and how would I do it?
Given a 12' x 12' field (4m x 4m), a reasonably cheap 3-axis gyro sensor and accelerometer, and compass, I plan to design a device capable of tracking its position to sub-centimeter accuracy for a ...
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How reliable are IMUs for a long usage (6 hours) rotation (only) tracking?
I know they are bad for positional tracking and drift from actual position over time but would like to know what is the situation with rotation only.
I know Oculus DK1 used ordinary off-the-shelf ...
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Displacement with accelerometer [duplicate]
I want to use a sensor to find displacement with accelerometer.
How can I use accelerometer to find displacement? I want to use this for a quadcopter.
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Quadcopter Position Measurement (Accelerometer, GPS or Both)?
I previously thought that an accelerometer on a quadcopter is used to find the position by integrating the data got from it. After I read a lot and watched this Youtube video (specifically at time 23:...
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Accelerometer calibration - how to get cross-axis sensitivities
I've already asked a related question (accelerometer bias removal) here on robotics and got a bit better results on corrected accelerometer output. To get even better results I found the calibration ...
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How are units of noise measurement related to units of a sensor's data measurement?
I'm trying to understand how noise is represented for accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers so that I can match the requirements of my project with the standard specs of these sensors.
I ...
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Localising a robot placed at an unknown position in a known environment
I am a third-year electrical engineering student and am working on an intelligent autonomous robot in my summer vacations.
The robot I am trying to make is supposed to be used in rescue operations. ...
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How to transform raw accelerometer data into the Earth fixed frame to determine position
I have data from a TeleMega and do not understand how to apply the rotation matrix for the accelerometer data so that I can get the more accurate position estimate from my accelerometer. My data comes ...
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Accelerometer bias removal
I found a good explanation on how to remove accelerometer bias (when on flat table only one axis should show values, the other two should be 0). I've calculated S and B factors (page 3):
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