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The glaring issue I see at the moment is that you are forcing polarity on the I and D terms. In general, you are using a lot of sign checks, sign assignments, and conditional programming. None of that ...
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### what is the algorithm to get position (Linear displacement and linear velocity ) using IMU (Like MPU6050)?

I thought for sure that there would have been a duplicate question somewhere on the site that answers this question, but I can't find one, so here's a quick description of the method. Put your IMU ...
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### Why do 3-axis accelerometers seemingly have a left-handed coordinate system?

The answer is that 3-axis accelerometers don't have a left handed coordinate system just for the gravity. In static condition (i.e. if the accelerometer is not accelerating with respect to any ...
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### Open source implementations for GPS+IMU sensor fusion?

Yes. The px4 software for the pixhawk autopilot has an extended kalman filter that uses an accelerometer, a gyroscope, gps, and mag. A paper describing the a smaller ekf which only estimates attitude ...
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### What information an IMU gives to a drone?

You already know the answer - because as you say it contains an accelerometer and a rate gyro. An accelerometer measures linear acceleration, a rate gyro measures angular velocity. These are the only ...
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### Stabilizing a Drone

Gyro is needed to stabilize angular acceleration. Knowing only your attitude, drone doesn't know how fast on which axis is rotating, knows only where is gravity ...
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### Explanation of Quadcopter Dynamics, Components and Control

A couple things, the first is that the controller does not really care what the "real" values are. Everything is relative, if the controller sees that it is sinking it will increase the thrust until ...
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### Kalman Filter GPS + IMU

This is a complete re-working of the answer I had originally provided. If you're curious, you can check the edit history and see what was posted earlier. In comments to this question, OP stated that ...
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### How to avoid gimbal with Quaternions

Quaternions are a more efficient way of storing the orientation matrix of a frame. I use the vector-scalar convention for quaternions (3+1 = 4 quantities) and have defined the following utility ...
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### How to track robot position?

How to estimate a robot's position depends on how well you'd like to estimate it. If you just need a rough guess, try odometry, it works OK. For better results, you have to incorporate more sensors. ...
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### How to track robot position?

I am not allowed to comment, so I have to add a reply. By position, do you mean the location in space (so X, Y coordinates), or orientation (tilt, etc)? If position, you can use the accelerometer ...
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### Displacement with accelerometer

This will depend on what you mean by "displacement" and for how long you want to do this. Can you supply more details on what your trying to accomplish and why? As Bending Unit 22 mentioned, you ...
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### Simulate IMU (2D gyro and accelerometer) data

This is really simple. First of all, you need to understand how the sensor works. In other words, you need understand whether the measurements is coming from linear or nonlinear model. Second, what is ...
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### How do I get MPU 6050 gyroscope data using "MPU6050_6Axis_MotionApps20.h" library

I went through the header files of the 12cdev lib and I figured it out. you have to first add the line VectorInt16 gyro; to your motion variables, then you add the line mpu.dmpGetGyro(&gyro, ...
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### How to estimate yaw angle from tri-axis accelerometer and gyroscope

yaw can be measured by rate gyro and magnetometer not with accelerometer because accelerometer values depends on gravity component but on rotation in z axis only there is no change in gravity ...
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### Minimising lateral drift in a PID (Arduino) controlled quadcopter using a 6DOF IMU

IMUs have accumulating error and can not be a reliable sensors by themselves if you want to measure velocity or even worse, position. I believe your safest bet would be doing a sensor fusion between ...
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### Minimising lateral drift in a PID (Arduino) controlled quadcopter using a 6DOF IMU

Unfortunately, with just an IMU there's virtually no way for your quad to know that it's drifting so it can't stop it. For outdoor flight you can add a GPS to detect the drift. For indoor flight, ...
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### imu position without GPS or camera

No, it is not possible to eliminate the cumulative position error caused by sensor noise and bias without using an additional sensor which can report any kind of position measurement. Even the best ...
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### Is there a way to measure 3 axis orientation without a magnetometer?

Calibration procedures for magnetometers exist, to compensate for soft iron (nearby ferromagnetic objects) and hard iron (nearby magnetic fields) offsets, which skew the measurements. However, these ...
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