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Al Testani replied to Al Toma's discussion ArduIMU_V3 DCM Code with Calibration
"Does your code fuse the GPS heading data into the calculations?"
Jul 20, 2014
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"I have only used barometric sensors in weather station applications so really don't know.  It depends on whether the pressure is actually fused to the other data by the software.  
What I was trying to do is to enhance the heading precision and…"
Jun 30, 2014
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"Mario,

I've put my project on hold due to other priorities but the last I worked on it was with a MPU-9150 board and code supplied by Pansenti. This worked very well in my quick tests.
Pansenti has taken down all of their stuff (not sure why) but I…"
Jun 30, 2014
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"I see it stabilize but it starts drifting again as soon as it is moved to a new orientation. Still very good performance and your support to ArduIMU is much appreciated! Thanks My application requires good yaw (heading) performance so I would like…"
Nov 1, 2012
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"Thanks!! That was it. I had wondered about this as a problem but didn't know where in the code to fix it. I made the change to FreeIMU.cpp in getQ() by adding the second #elif i.e.:

#if IS_9DOM()
#if HAS_AXIS_ALIGNED()
AHRSupdate(val[3] * M_PI/180,…"
Nov 1, 2012
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"There is a new release of FreeIMU with the updated calibration routines at:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fabio-varesano/freeimu/trunk/revision/18
Also attached is a calibration.h file with how perfect sensors on the ArduIMU running FreeIMU should…"
Oct 26, 2012
Al Testani replied to Al Testani's discussion FreeIMU Firmware on ArduIMU
"After the huge response I got from this post <g>, I did the port myself.  This is for ArduIMU V3 and entailed creating an MPU-6000 (SPI) library, verifying the FreeIMU library for the HMC58X3 worked on the ArduIMU hardware, and updating FreeIMU.cpp…"
Oct 19, 2012
Al Testani posted a discussion
Is there a port of the FreeIMU firmware to the ArduIMU hardware? I have the ArduIMU board but would like to try FreeIMU code on it.
Oct 13, 2012
Al Testani posted a discussion
I have an application where I wish to (eventually) auto-steer a competitive waterski boat in a straight line over approx. a 1200’ distance at up to 36mph (measurement/control duration is about 23 seconds).  The straight line is between 8 pairs of…
Sep 29, 2012