Timeline for Linear acceleration from MPU 6050
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| Dec 29, 2015 at 9:54 | comment | added | dlu | When you're motionless you're ok, no movement information to report :-) The bigger problem, I think, is that at a steady speed you also have 0 acceleration, but you are moving. A compass will tell you your heading, but that may or may not be your direction of movement. I think you're talking about building an INS (inertial navigation system), you'll need to be able to determine a starting state and then track changes (accelerations) from there. You may want a GPS. | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 8:41 | comment | added | Chris Stratton | A compass will not tell you direction of movement, only direction of (apparent) orientation | |
| Aug 31, 2015 at 3:58 | history | answered | ArcAiN6 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |