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Re: Need help with gyros

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Originally Posted by wdell View Post
For the life of me I can't figure out why, with the robot sitting dead still, the gyro reading does not stay at zero.
The gyro is a rate sensor. To get position, the library software integrates the rate. So if there is even the slightest null offset in the sensor, it will detect a non-zero rate even when perfectly still. When this non-zero rate is integrated, it will cause a slowly changing (angular) position.


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