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Re: Why you WANT to use a Gyro this year

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Originally Posted by nathanww View Post
By the time aX is showing roll that stands out above the noise floor, isn't your robot in a pretty precarious situation already?
I spent about a week of December doing a tolerance analysis of using an accelerometer as an inclinometer. For the specific part I used, my conclusion was that determining pitch and roll using the X and Y axes was more accurate than using the Z axis. This was assuming a single point calibration at start up.