using an Accelerometer to determine position
I am trying to build a robot that can self navigate and i want to use an accelerometer as a way to determine postiton by using a computer program to continuously intergrate measured acceleration into positon along each axis. is it possible to do this with the accelerometers available·through parallax and has anyone evertried to do this before?
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The accuracy of your measurement is highly dependent on the acqusition time of the measurement. The Memsic will not work since the width of the output pulse varies with acceleration and it is a relativly slow part with a 30Hz bandiwdth. The Hitachi part has·sufficient·bandwidth but·you will need to reduce the 200 msec pause that is used in the application note.
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Craig Eid
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