Thread: Correcting Travel Direction
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Unread 22-02-2011, 10:28
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Re: Correcting Travel Direction
Perhaps I need to elaborate a bit. I don't mean to be a bother, and I know that people have talked about correcting mecanum drive, but I just want to expand on this.

I would assume that to use an accelerometer to correct for travel direction, one must integrate the accelerometer readings to get velocity to get heading. Does anyone have any hints on this, or is it just integrating? Do I want to filter in case of collisions or other such things? How or when should I calibrate? How do I account for drift?
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