Gyro Mounting

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

This probably didn't do your control wiring any good, either. We had our STRONHOLD control board mounted with rubber pads and bungee, which allowed slight movement and some shock absorption, better both for controls and gyros.

971's was solidly bolted to the belly pan in order to couple the high frequency signals to the gyro, and worked great. I'd recommend coupling the gyro and accelerometer to the robot rigidly to avoid modifying the frequency content. You are better off filtering it in software.

We ran the ADXRS453 last year to very good effect.

I've never had good luck with accelerometers. The noise (and the second integral of it) is killer, as I think you are showing in your data. What are you trying to do with one that an encoder couldn't do?