I am planning to use IMU sensor in a Football to get its linear acceleration.
At the moment, I have a kit with MPU6050 and I am experimenting with its data. The main problem I am facing is that when I tilt/rotate the kit, it shows acceleration. I don't want this. I am only interested in the data related to football movement from one point to other. When football is kicked, it definitely spins and rotates. I want to remove this spinning/rotating effect. Direction of motion is not required, just acceleration is required. In other words, I am just interested in how hard the ball is kicked.
I need your help regarding the following
1-Is MPU6050 suitable for this type of project? If not, what are other options?
2-If MPU6050 can do the job then how can I remove the effect of spin and rotation of the sensor?
You have to calculate the effective acceleration vector, based on all (XYZ) axes, IIRC it's the sqrt of the sum of all squared accelerations.. With the ball in rest this vector is 1 g towards center of earth. With the ball pushed the acceleration vector will increase and point somewhere else, depending on the rotation of the ball. In free flight acceleration will be almost the same as in rest.
After reading DrDeittrich post, once the ball is kicked, there is no further acceleration except down. In free flight, the ball falling at 32 feet per second per second, it would be zero G. Like riding the Vomit Comet.
Only if the ball is falling down freely. But you will not normally drop the ball, so that a kick will give it an upward speed as well. That speed then is reduced by gravity.