Hi,
I am trying to plot the movement of an object in the screen. Using MPU 6050 breakout board with Arduino UNO R3. So far, I have converted raw accelerometer & gyro values to angle, filtered to account for gyro drift etc. So, essentially I have roll, pitch & yaw angle now.
How can I use those angles to find (x, y) points to be plotted?
Thanks
Roll, pitch, and yaw tell you how much a body has rotated about a point. What x, y values are you looking to plot? Why not x, y, z?
Yea, I meant x, y, z point. How do you find that when you have only angles. Looks like I am missing some 3D math here.
The angles tell you the orientation (relative to the initial orientation), not the position. Unless you know that some point of the object is at a known position, you don't have enough information to know where any point of it is.
You cant know absolute position, but I would imagine you can calculate position with respect to the position your device was located when it was powered on.
Use the accelerometer to calculate velocities in x, y, z direction and keep track of the position with simple position = velocity * time. I havent done something like this, so it might be more difficult to implement, but this is how I would start.