Plotting Location w/ Accellerometer Project

[GuyM142]

Originally Posted by Invictus3593

Invictus programmer here!

The other day i was doing some research on the Kinect sensor and found out that it has a 3-axis accelerometer in it. I'm thinking that it would be a neat project we could discuss/accomplish in this thread if we were to use the accelerometer data to calculate the "x" movement on the field and "z" movement on the field.

Since we don't really need "y" values, we can toss them out. We can use a time interval of about 100ms to calculate distance traveled with this equation: D=1/2at^2 where a is the accelleration and t is the time interval. After that, the only problem would be displaying a small diagram on the LV dashboard that has an aerial view of the field and a scale model robot that changes position every 100ms on the field diagram, based on the change in distance of the "x" and "z" values.

Anybody up to the challenge?

Great idea,
but how is the kinect related to this?
Can't it be done with the KOP accelerometer too?

BTW in what units is the output of the accelerometer? m/s^2, etc..