I am building a control system where my control variable is yaw angle, I bought a MPU6050 I have never used it before or any yaw sensor for that matter, how do I extract the yaw angle to put it in my control algorithm
The navigational definition of yaw requires a horizon reference (usually North), which the MPU-6050 lacks. In a 9 DOF IMU, the magnetometer provides the North reference.
For a relative yaw angle on a 6 DOF IMU, the only option is to numerically integrate the rate gyro terms, and the result will drift with time and temperature.
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