Thread: ANNOUNCING: navX MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor
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Re: ANNOUNCING: navX MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor
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Originally Posted by slibert View Post
Press Release - January 2, 2015
KauaiLabs, Inc. announces the navX MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor

The “9-axis heading” is enabled by magnetometer calibration tools (available online at no cost) and magnetometer disturbance detection and data fusion algorithms. This capability is known within the aerospace industry as an “Attitude/Heading Reference System” (AHRS). Kauailabs brings this high-tech AHRS capability to FIRST FRC teams - to use, learn and explore. navX MXP is a key component of Kauailabs’ ongoing efforts to make state-of-the-art navigation technologies used in autonomous vehicles (e.g., the Google Car) available to robotics students and enthusiasts as low-cost, open-source products.
The AHRS capability is very useful for field oriented driving.

Have you tried using the navX (or the nav6) for pose information? It would be useful to track robot position during the match.
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