Are We Using Gyro Z for holding altitude?

Is the Z gyro being used for any purpose? If not, maybe it can help to improve altitude hold and stability.

Well, it is the reason we have 6DOF right? The recent addition of using the Accel Z is a good move.

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by jasonshort on December 3, 2011 at 9:39pm

It's experimental, but it works for many people. You need to enable it in the APM_Config. Look at the bottom of attitude.pde with a code editor to play around with it.

I think the MPU6000 will be much more noise resistant and make this feature more feasible.

Jason

Permalink Reply by LIM Hun Pheng on December 3, 2011 at 10:25pm

Thanks Jason, you mean both Accel and Gyro Z are being used?

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