Questions tagged [imu]
Inertial Measurement Unit
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MPU6050 gyroscope giving wrong measure
i am trying to make an angle meter, using the UNO and MPU6050, following joop brokking video tutorials,
when utilizing the accelerometer, the results are fine,
however when i try to use gyroscope ...
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Confirm ROS2 (Humble) IMU node working correctly?
I recently added an MPU9250 9dof IMU to my robot and configured ros2_mpu9250_driver
How can I confirm the IMU and ROS2 node are working correctly, and the orientation output is configured correctly.
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Inferring joint orientation on multi-joint arm
Not a robotics question in the strictest sense, I guess, but related closely enough, I hope:
I have an arm-like articulated two(-plus-one)-joint appliance that I want to use as a 3D input device. It ...
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Localisation without GPS: BNO055 vs BMI088 / other IMU
I am working on a robot for navigating confined spaces that are GPS denied, I have to navigate a 300mm square concrete tube. This is a prototype/proof of concept work and I don't have a ton of sensor ...
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position estimation using imu
I have an Inertial Navigation System (INS) that publishes position information in GPS and UTM formats. I have mounted the device on a robot. My objective is to move the robot from location A to ...
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Robot localization (IMU + GPS) position Without GPS
I would like to get the GPS position based on the received GPS and the IMU that is at work (base_link). But I would like GPS to be calculated and when the real GPS disappears, that is, calculations ...
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IMU Senosr fusion algorithm of gyro and accelerometer during acceleration of vehicle
Hello so we have a car with 10 IMUs mounted at different locations of the car and the idea is the measure the centripetal force at each location of the car and compare it to each other. We also need ...
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How to perform time-offset calibration use GTSAM in Camera-IMU system?
Assume we have camera poses data and IMU data(which include gyr and acc data) with different timestamps, now I want to estimate this value, I known that this can be done in many ways(EKF,MSCKF), but I ...
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How to launch rtabmap_ros?
I have been following the Nav2 tutorial when I reached the robot_localization part and decided to launch rtabmap using a Kinect rgbd camera for map generation
I found this schema which I need to ...
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Simulate GPS IMU With Quadcopter Swarm?
I have multiple drones work in swarm formation, i made the quadcopter model and the swarm one. Until now i have the swarm moving in a formation leader-follower and track a predefined trajectory based ...
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Is there a way to do a 3D map only with a 2D Lidar and IMU sensor in ros2?
I'm working in ros2 humble with a 2D lidar and an IMU sensor and I'm willing to do a 3D mapping with this things. I have already done a 2D mapping using RF2O pkg (that gives me an odometry only with ...
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How do you rotate positions from ENU-frame to body frame?
If positions are in the local frame of ENU (or ECEF - either works), how do you rotate that to the body frame of the device?
Logically, I thought that I could use the pitch, roll, and yaw angles of ...
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How to use smartphone IMU in ROS?
I would like to get the IMU sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope) on my android smartphone to be usable in ROS running on my laptop so I can use it with SLAM.
What would be the best way to go about ...
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EKF node do not publish imu data but publish odometry. Humble
I'm new using the robot localization package as you will see on my question below:
I'm using Humble with a Differential robot with 2 encoders and IMU wheeltec 9dof. I also have a GNSS but I wont ...
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Fusing pressure/depth sensor/IMU for Nav2
Can I fuse a depth sensor or a pressure sensor's readings with imu to publish /odom (odometry) in Nav2 stack? I don't have wheel encoders in my robot, and I don't know what to use. Any resources?
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Im using a BNO055 In the IMU operation mode, but i can only get it to display 0's
Ive read the data sheet but cant find much info there, but when I try to get IMU to give me euler data (yaw,pitch,roll).
It gives me not accurate numbers for euler data and i cant use the adafruit ...
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Compensation of sudden impacts/shocks in adaptive AHRS sensor fusion algorithms
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I have a 9-DOF MEMS-IMU and trying to estimate the orientation (roll, pitch and yaw) in scenarios (e.g. car crash) where sudden shocks (mainly linear) lead to high external accelerations ...
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Run navsat_transform_node without odometry
My (marine) robot has GNSS and and IMU, but no means to measure odometry (which is an estimate of local motion afaik)
I am looking for my robot's state expressed as tf2 in a predefined local, world-...
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Finding North direction from magnetometer and accelerometer fusion
I was understanding accelerometer and gyro sensor fusion from this video. At time 3:56, Brian says:
To get north, we need to do some cross products. We can start with our measured mag (magnetometer) ...
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Adjust bearing knowing initial and last coordinate in dead reckoning
I am working with IMU data (accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope) in order to estimate the path done by the object that contained the IMU. I am using dead reckoning for this. I am trying to ...
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ROS2 SLAM without Lidar
I am trying to implement SLAM and robot localization for my ROV - remotely operated underwater vehicle- without using lidar. nor wheel encoders since the rov's movement uses T200 thrusters and not ...
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GPS + IMU data and kinematics equations
I have the following data
Longitudinal acceleration, $a_x^{IMU}$
Lateral acceleration, $a_y^{IMU}$
Vertical acceleration, $a_z^{IMU}$
Yaw angle, $\psi$
Yaw rate, $\dot{\psi}$
Latitude, $\rightarrow ...
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Understanding reprojection error / visual residual in ORB-SLAM3
I am trying to understand ORB-SLAM3 paper. It gives visual residual / reprojectio error equation as follows:
$$r_{ij}=u_{ij}-\prod(T_{CB}T^{-1}_i\oplus x_j)$$
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$r_{ij}$ is reprojection error ...
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Setting frame of IMU message in Gazebo Fortress
I am trying to setup a robot in Gazebo Fortress, under ROS2 Humble in Ubuntu 22.04.
This robot has 6 wheels, a lidar and an IMU. I have setup the xacro files and I am able to spawn the robot into ...
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Converting IMU random walk, bias instability to stddev, bias stddev, etc
I am trying to create an accurate IMU model in Gazebo based off of a real IMU that I am using.
The Gyro specs are:
Bias instability: 3.5 degrees/hr
Angular random walk: 0.1 degrees/sqrt(hr)
The ...
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Observability of Gravity in SLAM
A number of SLAM systems only optimize over 4 variables(location and yaw) as they argue gravity is observable which constrains roll and pitch.
I don't understand this argument since in theory you ...
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Frequency Limitation in robot_localization's EKF Node
I'm using version 2.7.4 of the robot_localization package for ROS Noetic.
I'm currently utilizing two nodes of the package:
EKF Local Node: Fuses data from an IMU (100Hz) and wheel encoders (4Hz).
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The Rotation of an IMU is no propagated to other link in RVIZ
I'm trying to make an stl file rotate into Rviz2 following the quaternion given by an IMU.
My TFtree is described as in the following picture.
I publish my data from the IMU in the same file as the ...
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Robot Localization does not keep constant trajectory despite rotation-only input with IMU only
I am trying to figure out why the ROS robot localization is giving me weird results from estimating motion for IMU only. It seems that when the robot is moving with constant velocity and a change in ...
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Do i need an odometry input for robot_localization with only IMU data?
I am now working to receive data from an IMU and then publish the transformation for SLAM with Lidar, using the robot_localization package for filter, and i will fuse this IMU with encoder later. I ...
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High frequency robot-localization output when fusing GNSS + IMU
I'm in the process of tuning a robot-localization package parameters in my sensor-fusion ROS2 package.
I have a dataset from various sensors mounted on a vehicle (IMU, GNSS, Lidar, Rgb Cameras, Radar, ...
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what is the algorithm to get position (Linear displacement and linear velocity ) using IMU (Like MPU6050)?
So I have been working on a drone project for a very long time, now I decided to work on Kalman filter which is used widely nowadays like Ardupilot. I looked at the source code so basically understand ...
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Particle Filter for IMU tilt angle and bias estimation from Kalman Filter models
I understand the functioning of Particle Filters from the book Probabilistic Robotics and the robotics course provided by Cyrill Stachniss.
I want to implement, from scratch, a particle filter to ...
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IMU sensor Vectornav VN100 driver doesn't post any INS messages
I've already posted the same question on the GitHub page of the VectorNAV driver: github.com/dawonn/vectornav/issues/128 But no luck, noone gets back to me, looks like the branch isn't in much support ...
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LSM6DSV IMU drift issue
we are currently trying to get an LSM6DSV (specifically LSM6DSV16X) IMU working, which has in-built sensor fusion. It's important for us, that there is very little drift over time, and the sensor ...
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Why is the noise density of an gyro sensor is represented as (rad/s)/sqrt(Hz) not (rad/s)/Hz
Have been wondering about this always and finally, my curiosity overcame my laziness.
I thought the unit for a noise density should be (rad/s)/Hz as the noise density is simply divided by the sampling ...
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Gazebo Garden: change noise characteristics of IMU sensor
I am compiling Gazebo from source on my Ubuntu 22.04 Mac M1 Parallels VM.
I am wondering how I can change the noise characteristics (like standard deviation) of the default IMU sensor in Gazebo Garden....
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UM7 Orientation Sensor IMU not Publishing at 255 Hz. It is around 20-45 Hz, How to fix?
I really want to ask you about the UM7 Orientation Sensor we purchased. We want so much to use the UM7 in our research.
As it is mentioned on the Pololu website, the IMU transmits data using human-...
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Fusing GPS+IMU without heading or odom measurements
I need to fuse GPS+IMU to make a trajectory I can refer to in post processing, hopefully with velocity estimates as well.
I was looking into the robot_localization ...
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centimetre accuracy using IMU, is it possible?
I need to track hand movement, most importantly its vertical position to centimetre accuracy.
I've tried this with IMU MP6050 but the errors I get from double integration are huge.
Is there a way to ...
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Setting Up Navigation Stack with only Odomtery
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I'm trying to set up the navigation stack on a robot possessing only odometry devices (wheel encoder, IMU, and GPS, published to /odom /imu /gps). No camera/...
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Heading estimation for differential drive robot
My robot fried its BNO055 IMU, (which never gave the heading estimation improvement I sought), so I am investigating my options. I noticed the ROS 2 iRobot Create uses wheel encoders, an optical flow ...
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Get rotation of IMU data snapshot
I received snippets of data of an IMU with 9 DoF in motion. For these I wanted to get their rotation by angles relative to the earth frame. My goal is to receive ...
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Which algorithms to locate a static 3D object relative to a moving camera/IMU?
I am using typical setup with camera and IMU as found on a smartphone. Using this, I would like to estimate the relative pose between the camera and an object (for simplicity, let's say a cube). The ...
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Custom implementation of robot_localization package
I plan to implement a sensor fusion of IMU + Visual odometry using an EKF. I came across the excellent robot_localization package which does pretty much all that I want. However, I need to use perform ...
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EKFSLAM with LiDAR and IMU + GPS localization module
There are many resources that relate to EKFSLAM based on the presence of only a LiDAR unit, which localize both the vehicle and the detected landmarks.
I see that they often use state vectors that get ...
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I fused a GPS and IMU and I am wondering if my results make sense
I am trying to fuse a u-blox M8 with a MicroStrain IMU via a loosely coupled architecture.
I was wondering if there are any suggestions or insights based on the results that I am getting.
I based most ...
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Conversion of roll, pitch and yaw from ENU to NED
I have roll, pitch and yaw values in an ENU frame.
How can I convert it into a NED frame?
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[Robot Localization] How to use absolute orientation from IMU with absolut positionning from visual SLAM
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I'm quite new to ROS and robot_localization so I'm getting confused really fast with TFs. I've been using for some time now a visual SLAM algorithm that works fine and I'd like to slowly improve ...
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