Hello guys,
yesterday I ordered my first Pi and now I am seeking for use cases. Is it possible to measure the speed of whatever the Pi is attached to by using acceleration sensors or are these measurement too inaccurate? I am thinking about tracking myself while skiing. Normally I use a smartphone for this, but the measurements using GPS are quite inaccurate.
Greetings,
Shaav
Re: [RP3] measuring speed
Sensor Fusion.
GPS is accurate in the long term but noisy in the short term.
Accelerometers are only accurate in the short term (to get speed from acceleration you integrate, any error is also integrated making the speed in-accurate)
To get a better solution from the two, you need to fuse the raw data from both together, Kalman filtering is a commonly used way to do this.
GPS is accurate in the long term but noisy in the short term.
Accelerometers are only accurate in the short term (to get speed from acceleration you integrate, any error is also integrated making the speed in-accurate)
To get a better solution from the two, you need to fuse the raw data from both together, Kalman filtering is a commonly used way to do this.
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Pi Interests: Home Automation, IOT, Python and Tkinter
Pi Interests: Home Automation, IOT, Python and Tkinter
Re: [RP3] measuring speed
I'll expand a little on what scotty101 said. The accelerometer cannot measure speed. What it measures is change of speed, that is, acceleration. You have to integrate that over time in order to get the present speed relative to the speed you had when you started integrating. That will accumulate errors as well as legitimate acceleration, that is, if the accelerometer is not accurately calibrated and gives you a small non-zero reading when there is no change of speed, that offset will be integrated along with legitimate signal and the speed error that it makes will accumulate.