Thread: Large amounts of gyro drift
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Unread 18-03-2015, 18:14
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Re: Large amounts of gyro drift
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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson View Post
... P.S. They claim 1 degree per minute drift. Again, I was skeptical but I think actually, in most cases, they do better than that. We will often practice for 20 minutes and stop because the motors are hot or the battery is dead not because we need to rezero the gyro. YMMV but that is our experience.
The navX MXP static yaw drift (e.g., when the navX MXP is still, and the ambient temperature is constant) averages just below 0.25 degrees/hour. This yields a very respectable 15 degrees of drift/hour when not moving - comparable to the ADXRS453. Our goal is to under-promise and over-deliver.