Hi there,
I'm working on a position tracking device and I'm using the Kalman library for smoothing my values. So far it all works fine, the only problem I have is the "wrap-around" when the angle jumps from 360 to 0 (or the other way around).
For example if I just look at the X axis, I get these values around the jump (red are the numbers which I can't explain):
355.4
357.3
359.4
195.2
140.3
80.1
35.3
10.6
-8.3
-4.0
-1.5
0.5
1.5
3.9
6.4
etc.
So basically it jumps from 360 to a value near 180, then sinks to about 10 degrees, then goes to negative values of about -10 and then increases until it reaches 0 and then starts to behave normal again… The strange numbers are there for about 500 ms until it starts to behave normal again. This problem only appears in my values, that are filtered with the kalman "method". The angles given by my accelerometer are wrapping fine (from 360 directly to 0).
Any idea why this happens and how I can avoid it?
Thanks a lot in advance!