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Permalink Reply by mmormota on August 18, 2010 at 6:19pm

A good IMU is pretty reliable. The primary input is the gyro, the drift is eliminated using accelerometers and the gps or optional magnetic sensors. Smart algorithm required, but fortunately there are great papers (start with the very clear and outstanding Premerlani descriptions) and open source code as well.

A thermopile cant't work well in many situations, for example close to trees, buildings, or inside clouds. Correcting (overriding) the IMU upon the thermopile doesn't seem reasonable.

Jozsef

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Permalink Reply by Greg Fletcher on August 18, 2010 at 7:17pm

I would consider more as a back up to an IMU rather than a using it for sensor drift. The sensor drift problem has pretty much been solved with the DCM method. It could be useful to recover after an in flight reset, but I would think the system would use one or the other at any one time.

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Permalink Reply by hawk on September 25, 2010 at 8:59am

Hi Joe ,

There are two type of IMU.One is thermopiles that it can use easy.But accuracy is alittle low.IMU is the best,But it is very difficut to write own program and build CKT.We use X-sene IMU http://www.xsens.com/en/general/mti-g.But we suggest ,you should use V2 deve:.After that change one.Good luck.
Aero hawk
Aero Space University

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on September 25, 2010 at 11:51am

To me IR is superior for simple wing leveling applications. It's 10 times less complex / more robust. The IMU's really shine when used for coordinated turns and closed in spaces.

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