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Re: Innovative Controls

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Originally Posted by Negative 9 View Post
Would it be practical to use a compass to sense your robot's orientation more accurately than say a drifting KOP gyro? Or would all the electronics and electromagnetic motors surrounding it mess that up?
A combination of a gyroscope and magnetometer would be better, as magnetometers usually can't be sampled very fast.