Pitch, roll, and yaw. what is the best sensor.
I am thinking of a project for model rocketry and I want to have a sensor or sensors that will give me data on the attitude of the rocket as it flies. Would a set of compas sensors work for this? I was thinking of the dinsmore sensor but if there is another sensor that would give me better results I would like to hear about it. The project will also have an acceleration/velocity collection as well using the Memsic sensor.
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It won't give you if the rocket has capsided.
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I was just looking at that. I have found some triaxial accelerometers but they are pretty expenisive. I'm just looking for something that will allow me to store the data then download and plot it on my computer.
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Compressed ait? Well I havn't heard of that either. Navigation isn't the issue and would require more moving parts so just trhust to apagee and fall to eath is fine with me.
Post Edited (Trepidcat) : 8/12/2005 12:37:38 PM GMT
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While you can get two axis with one Memsic, there is always a major and a minor axis. The major will give you more detail. Thusly, having 3 combined with give you a sphere of data that can uses for a lot of applications. The data likely will have to be filtered or averaged for jitter.
And here is a site that will give you stable Rocket Equations:
http://my.execpc.com/~culp/rockets/rckt_eqn.html
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Post Edited (Kramer) : 8/14/2005 9:37:14 AM GMT