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Re: Noisy Accelerometer

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Originally Posted by Acshi View Post
Try integrating the accelerations to find velocity, and use that instead. Remember that acceleration is the change in velocity, so if your robot is at an almost constant speed, you should expect values to be hovering around 0 acceleration, some above, some below.

Haven't set this up with my team's bot yet though, but the velocity should be make more sense than straight acceleration values.
We worked on integrating the accleration to get the velocity, but my calculus help had some hard time explaining it to us and "converting" it to LabView. We got something, but it definitely isn't a velocity...

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