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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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### How to estimate yaw angle from tri-axis accelerometer and gyroscope

Assuming your vehicle is roughly horizontal to the ground, you won't be able get a good estimate of yaw from the accelerometer. Consider the nominal case: when your accelerometer is pointing straight ...
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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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### 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 estimate yaw angle from tri-axis accelerometer and gyroscope

Gyroscopes will only give you the rate of change of the yaw angle, not the absolute yaw angle. Unless you plan to set the yaw angle initially and have it drift further and further into garbage ...
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### Accelerometer, gyro, and magnetometer sensor fusion in 2d

The gyrometer gives you angular velocity about each axis. You simply integrate these values to get the roll, pitch and yaw of the robot. Since this is 2D, all you care about is yaw, and you'll ...

### 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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### 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 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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### Balancing a plate with an IMU offset from the center

Basically it does not matter. But you have to be carefull if the plate is rotating fast, because the rotation of the plate around its center point, with the IMU placed out of center, will cause the ...
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