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Re: Realistic Velocity Calculation

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Originally Posted by Spoam View Post
You can find the velocity by numerically integrating the acceleration values (e.g. trapezoid sum them, or continuously add the acc value*time step). This is probably very imprecise though, so I would test it empirically and not have anything vital depend on those values.
This is exactly what we have been doing. It doesn't give us anything useful, yet... By yet I mean is the accelerometer is giving us really weird data and the reason why is explained in an earlier post.
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