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Originally Posted by nickmagus
its true i can utilize someone else's implementation but i don't like to do that unless i at least understand their implementation myself. ...
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OK, so you like the beautiful details. I do too.
BTW, the former FRC 931 college mentor that I mentioned above is Brandon Heller. He is a PhD student at Stanford now. I think he also was one of the mentors for FRC 8 (your team) last year.
As Sam mentioned a couple of posts up, Kalman filters are good for much more than just figuring out which way is up (whatever your frame of reference). Your exploration of the details might lead to applications beyond balancing an inverted pendulum, and one of those might find its way onto your team's next robot. Have fun with it.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)