AuduIMU Questions
Hey guy's
Our team is interested in ArduPilot IMU. I am wondering if the IMU will work in conjunction with the thermopile sensors? Is this the arrangement?
Monroe
Team Prometheus
http://teamprometheus.org
Check out the Quad Pod in the pictures section.
Our team is interested in ArduPilot IMU. I am wondering if the IMU will work in conjunction with the thermopile sensors? Is this the arrangement?
Monroe
Team Prometheus
http://teamprometheus.org
Check out the Quad Pod in the pictures section.
Replies to This Discussion
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on -
No, you wouldn't use both. They do the same thing, via different methods. At the moment, the IMU is a stand-alone product and is not intended to work with ArduPilot.
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Monroe on -
Is it possible I wonder to use each with a separate ardu and process the data with another larger more powerful processor? Like for instance HUD, IMU/(magnetometer,accelerometer,gyro), Thermophile, and use the ardu as a subsystem?
Monroe
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on -
Sure. But why? What does the Thermopile give you that the IMU does not?
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Monroe on -
Well, bud? You cant use GPS to land on the moon! :) We joined forces with the open source GLXP (google lunar x-prize) Team Frednet! and are prototyping a real lunar lander. Mark I may use Ardu hardware!
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on -
Good answer ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Whipple on -
how so? GPS isn't even mentioned in this post.
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Monroe on -
Well, For our use we take for granted that the IMU uses the GPS data for positioning. It is true you dont have to use it.
Monroe
Progress is being made we have a kilman filter and are wittling it down to less than 100ms
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Permalink Reply by Morli on -
@Monroa,
Which is what I am hoping( PnP) for some day soon, :)) , best of both worlds
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Monroe on -
Wishes do come true! So be careful what you wish for! (You might get it!)
Hopefully my guy's and I can help everybody out here and get the ardu to do some really interesting things! (Like it doesn't already?) It helps if you actually do something of course!
Monroe
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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Monroe on -
I have had my eye on ya'll for a while now. Now we are about to implement one of these systems and I like the Ardu!
Monroe
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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Doug Weibel on -
I like the Ardu too, but seriously, for a lunar lander???
Also, GPS only corrects the yaw in ArduIMU. You get no yaw information from the thermopiles, so actually no GPS is not a good reason to use thermopiles in conjunction with ArduIMU. There may be other good reasons however.
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