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Posted by Ed Hasd on March 9, 2011 at 9:00am

 

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InvenSense MPU-6000

 

I think it's perfect!

 

Specs:

- Tri-axis gyroscope and tri-axis accelerometer in one package

- Programmable scale ranges:

    - Gyro: ±250, ±500, ±1000, and ±2000°/s

    - Accelerometer: ±2g, ±4g, ±8g and ±16g

- Output: rotation matrix, quaternion, Euler Angle, or raw data format

- Digital Motion Procssing (DMP)

- 16 bits DACs

- Sample rate at least 1 kHz

- Digital temperature sensor

- 400kHz FastMode I2C or SPI

- Support for external I2C magnetometer

- No need for calibration

- Support for programmable interrupts

- Price: $15 (1-99)   Farnell: 43,33 € (1-9)

- Size: 4 x 4 x 0.9 mm

Tags: fusion, imu, invensense, sensor
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  • hamish March 9, 2011 at 12:35pm

    This owns.  I must admit I've been eagerly waiting for it, and not-so-eagerly awaiting a stupidly overpriced sparkfun breakout board :P

     

    Does the motion processing have filters running ?

  • I.S. March 9, 2011 at 12:31pm

    @Thomas

    how about the ubiquitous HMC5843?

    @Doug

    I am impressed how much ArduPilot team is involved in the industry!

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    Doug Weibel March 9, 2011 at 12:00pm

    That link is just for a pre-order....  InvenSense got a little ahead of themselves when they announced this a few months ago.

     

    Ryan Beall and I have been working with Patrick Henry from InvenSense to get some good hooks built into the firmware so that this will work well in an APM oilpan ;)

  • Thomas Saunders March 9, 2011 at 11:39am
    It will be interesting to see how well the fusion stuff works, hopefully someone will do some sophisticated benchmarks before I get the hardware finished! Now I need to find a decent cheapo magnetometer which hooks up easily with the IMU-6000 - anyone have any suggestions?
  • I.S. March 9, 2011 at 11:36am

    This nice SoC was announced some time ago, but looks like it's finally on the market.

    A bit pricey on Farnell (even compared to its MSRP) but no doubt the chip count and board area saving are huge.

     

    I would like to see an APM+Oilpan fusion into a single board using this chip (and cheaper than curren combination).

    Something like ATmega256, IMU-6000, 3ax magneto and a few more things ina single board.

     

    On the other hand, how about its fusion algorithm? How good is it? It means that it would strip down the calculs work to the ATmega?

  • Thomas Saunders March 9, 2011 at 10:39am

    Finally! it is available to purchase from Farnell: IMU-6000. Been waiting for this for a while now..

    I've been designing an integrated radio/imu/autopilot around the ITG-3200 and LSM303 but I think I'll use this instead

  • Doug Carter March 9, 2011 at 10:35am
    This is pretty cool based on the specs.  Whats the physical dimensions though?
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