Which sensors should be used throughout the robot?

[Ari423]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

For 2016 we are looking for a better IMU. We recently purchased a Arduino Shield with a Bosch BMO055 orientation sensor. It has a 3 axis accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer. Plus a Arm cortex M0 core running fusion code. Easy set up. Initialize the I2C port, write to a few registers and its running. We bought the Arduino shield for testing. Will use the Adafruit board on the robot if we go with it. Only have 1 hour of testing. Gyro, accelerometer fusion looks rock solid. Add in the mag and it is not good. Interesting is the linear acceleration output. It's a little noisy but with a little clean up could give direction of motion. Not suitable for distance. Better than the Invensense outputs. Looks good but you never know until it's on the robot.

We were possibly looking to use the Bosch BNO055, but we were unsure of how to connect it to the RoboRIO (via Arduino or otherwise). Can you please explain how you did it and how difficult it was to do.