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MBED and Inertial Measurement unit
Armin Dajic.
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What are your needs for your project if you don't mind me asking? Just curious.
Tobias Piroth wrote:
Hi,
just wanted to share some info with you: I was looking for an 6+ DOF inertial measurement unit for a research project. I invested some money in the I2C-6DOF IMU. Accelerometer reading with Arduino and MBed worked well, but i never retrieved usable data from the Gyroscope. I now found a 9-DOF IMU from a company called YEI. The IMU family is called 3-Space, and the cheapest variant is the Embedded version, which can communicate over USB, UART, SPI and I2C. Until now, I only tryed UART - worked like a charm after linking to the mbed. I am also new to the mbed and worked with Arduino/Chipkit before; I am very impressed with the ease of the mbed system. However, the 3-space system is capable of doing all the math (Kalman filter, Euler quaternation etc.) for you at high frequencies, and the best news: It is very easy to connect it to mbed. So, if you are looking for a fast (but not necessarily the cheapest) way to set up an IMU with your project, you might consider this device. Extensive documentation is provided on the homepage.
(Disclaimer: No, I don't work for that company. I am an academic who is trying to set up a motion analysis project)
Hi,
just wanted to share some info with you: I was looking for an 6+ DOF inertial measurement unit for a research project. I invested some money in the I2C-6DOF IMU. Accelerometer reading with Arduino and MBed worked well, but i never retrieved usable data from the Gyroscope. I now found a 9-DOF IMU from a company called YEI. The IMU family is called 3-Space, and the cheapest variant is the Embedded version, which can communicate over USB, UART, SPI and I2C. Until now, I only tryed UART - worked like a charm after linking to the mbed. I am also new to the mbed and worked with Arduino/Chipkit before; I am very impressed with the ease of the mbed system. However, the 3-space system is capable of doing all the math (Kalman filter, Euler quaternation etc.) for you at high frequencies, and the best news: It is very easy to connect it to mbed. So, if you are looking for a fast (but not necessarily the cheapest) way to set up an IMU with your project, you might consider this device. Extensive documentation is provided on the homepage.
(Disclaimer: No, I don't work for that company. I am an academic who is trying to set up a motion analysis project)