Hello all,
Excuse the pun...
I have a spark fun 6 DOF IMU board - http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10010 that I want to use for a racelogging application. I ideally I want to get X, Y, Z angles from it and accel updates to complement the GPS on the board.
I have the correct gyro and accell data comming back from the board via Parallax Propeller, and have a VB.net app to debug the data.
I've been reading a lot about filtering the outputs either via complimentary filters or the kalman filter based on Tom's example code.
Is there anything I should be reading to try and understand this a bit more? I get the concepts, but not the specifics.
Stage 1- get the hardware working and the correct values comming off the uP.
Stage 2- work out angles & forces
Stage 3 - kalman / complimentary filter?
I guess I am at stage 2 currently.
Cheers,
James