Complementary filter demo

This is a demonstration of complementary filters on pitch and roll attitude using 3gyroscopes and 3 accelerometers running on a custom Quadrotor controller board. Filters are coded in Python on the laptop with VPython rendering of spinning 3D cubes. Sensor processing code is running on the ATMega644p-based controller and is written in C. For Python code, see: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpo... For details on the custom Quadrotor sensor board, look here: http://sites.google.com/site/pushpakq...

I know its not as impressive as DCM, but you have to start somewhere :-)

(Inspired by Brian Wolfe's demo- http://www.diydrones.com/video/pic32-autopilot-attitude)

- Roy

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Roy Brewer February 16, 2010 at 3:33pm

One can certainly consider the DCM as implemented here as either an "observer" or as a complementary filter.

BTW, the "complementary filter" I demo isn't even using proper Euler angles - they are independent linear angles :-)

- Roy
Hugo Vincent February 16, 2010 at 2:42pm

> I know its not as impressive as DCM, but you have to start somewhere :-)

Bear in mind the DCM filter often used here *is* a complementary filter, albeit one that uses a direction cosine matrix (DCM) representation of the angles rather than plain-old Euler angles.

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