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  • #15408
    Tannz0rz
    Participant

    Hello Ozzmaker team, I had just purchased your board with intent to track world-space rotation and position. I’ve created an example project that does exactly this and as far as I can discern the calculations ought be correct, but even while not rotating the gyroscope still reads small non-zero (~0.01rad/sec) changes that effect the transform’s actual rotation. Please review my example below and advise on how to remedy the rendered inaccuracies.

    https://github.com/Tannz0rz/BerryIMU_Transform

    Thank you ahead of time!

    Tannz0rz

    #15409
    Mark Williams
    Keymaster

    Hi, i have had a look through your code and i am not familiar with the libraries you are using, so i am not sure how much help i can provide.

    it looks like you are running  the loop at 100ms.  does it get better if you run it faster?  E.g. 10ms

    Mark --OzzMaker.com --

    #15414
    Tannz0rz
    Participant

    Yes, the results are all the same. For example, raw gyro readings scaled by the sensitivity values (while the board is not rotating) look like (in radians per second):

    GYRO { -0.0354302, -0.118508, -0.0109956 }
    GYRO { -0.0342085, -0.129503, -0.00855211 }
    GYRO { -0.0427606, -0.128282, -0.013439 }
    GYRO { -0.031765, -0.120951, -0.0109956 }
    GYRO { -0.0354302, -0.123395, -0.00977384 }
    GYRO { -0.0354302, -0.12706, -0.0122173 }
    GYRO { -0.0354302, -0.125838, -0.0122173 }
    GYRO { -0.0329867, -0.123395, -0.0122173 }
    GYRO { -0.0305433, -0.120951, -0.0109956 }
    GYRO { -0.0403171, -0.122173, -0.00977384 }

    Should I perhaps try to find a mean value for each and clip the values below it to zero? The only issue with this is that the Y values seem to hover around -0.12 rad/sec (-6 deg/sec), and that is a lot of precision lost.

    #15442
    Tannz0rz
    Participant

    I updated my repository with changes made in the endeavor of fixing the idle value problem:

    1. Changed from single to double precision in my final transform calculations.
    2. Parameterized enableIMU, allowing users to select the scale for gyro, accel, and mag.
    3. Added readGYR_SI, readACC_SI, readMAG_SI which returns the readings in SI units with double precision.
    4. Switched from large to small scale (for greater precision): 2000dps to 245dps and 16G to 2G.

    I have noticed that compared to other LSM9DS1 boards, namely SparkFun’s, a lot of the library functionality is missing, namely the use of interrupts. Using interrupts would be helpful as it would notify me when values above a threshold are available. Please refer to https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_LSM9DS1_Arduino_Library/blob/master/examples/LSM9DS1_Interrupts/LSM9DS1_Interrupts.ino

    But using interrupts would not necessarily remedy the fact that my idle values are what I would assume to be abnormally high, could you perhaps share what gyro readings you get while the board is idle?

    #15450
    Tannz0rz
    Participant

    Okay, problem solved! I implemented two methods “calculateGyroBias_SI” and “calculateAccelBias_SI” that are computed once on initialization and subtracted from subsequent readings.

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