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IMU6050 understanding

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i have build an Openxsensor for testing IMU6050
made the calibration via serial monitor

#define ACCX_SOURCE PITCH gives me Acceleration on X axis (about 8,90 to -8,90)
#define ACCY_SOURCE ROLL gives me Acceleration on Z axis (about 8,90 to -8,90)
#define ACCZ_SOURCE YAW gives me yaw Angle (+180° to -180°)/10

my Taranis is on 2.1.7 (new telemetry)

is this correct?
is it possible to send Acceleration on z Axis to the taranis?
(would be interesting which acrobatic manouvers are hard for the model)
If i understand things right, then on the Arduino the Z_Acceleration is used for faster vario response in combination with ms5611.

Would be more intuitiv if ROLL and PITCH are name ACC_X and ACC_Y

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Wene001 wrote: #define ACCX_SOURCE PITCH gives me Acceleration on X axis (about 8,90 to -8,90)
#define ACCY_SOURCE ROLL gives me Acceleration on Z axis (about 8,90 to -8,90)
#define ACCZ_SOURCE YAW gives me yaw Angle (+180° to -180°)/10

my Taranis is on 2.1.7 (new telemetry)

is this correct?
PITCH is not expected to be an acceleration. It should be the angle (+180 to -180) saying if nose is up or down.
ROLL is not expected to be an acceleration. It should be the angle (+180 to -180) saying your wing is inclined left or right.
So, PITCH, ROLL and YAW gives you the orientation of the plane regarding Earth.
The unit is 1/10 of degree. So the value should be from 1800 to -1800

Frsky protocol has no dedicated field in order to transmit PITCH,ROLL,YAW so oXs allows you to "misused" AccX, AccY and AccZ in order to get the data.
Wene001 wrote: is it possible to send Acceleration on z Axis to the taranis?
(would be interesting which acrobatic manouvers are hard for the model)
It should be possible but in fact we have 2 kinds of Z acceleration in oXs.
One is the "vertical" (regarding to Earth) acceleration and the other is the Z acceleration regarding the sensor it self.
When the plane makes a vertical loop both should be similar but if you are cycling horizontally they are quite différent.
With the scale factor used for the imu, the accelerations could be measured up to 4 g which is not very high for a RC plane.
Primaraly, use of a imu 6050 was intended to get faster vario response than with a ms5611 alone.
Wene001 wrote: If i understand things right, then on the Arduino the Z_Acceleration is used for faster vario response in combination with ms5611.
Yes. the "vertical" acceleration regarding Earth is used in combination with altitude provided by MS5611 to get faster vario response
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Thanks for clarifying. Will test more in the evening.
do you think we have enouph memory to have the options to send the Accelleration of the three sensor axis in G via AccX AccY and AccZ
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Yes.
But again wich accelerations:
The raw values given by the sensor (so refering to the sensor orientation) or those refering to Earth (calculated in such a way that Z is vertical)
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I think the (calibrated) sensor values would be fine.
At least for me.

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Has anyone used the IMU with an Arduino pro mini 3.3V / 8Mhz?
I have tried it and no problems found.
But is the calculating speed high enough?
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I did not test at 8mhz.
I expect that there would not be enough calculating speed if all (or nearly) all types of sensor (voltage, current, baro, airspeed, gps,..) are activated too.
Probably that it will be ok if you only activate one baro and imu.

Best is to test it. Eventually you could activate the DEBUG parameter and add a few lines of code to see the enlapsed time between 2 runs of the main loop and to check that Vspeed is calculated once every 20 ms.

If you just want to use the IMU in order to get roll and pitch, then some cpu time can be saved deactivating the Kalman filter used to calculated Vspeed.

Note: even if it is out of tolerance (too low voltage), it seems that some users use a 16mhz pro mini with a 1S lipo.
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Ok I unterstand.
I will only use one baro and imu.
I will try to check the timing in the mainloop.
Thanks

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