Archive for June 9th, 2010

Grabbing MANOI’s Accelerometer and Gyro Data

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Screen shot 2010-06-09 at 10.18.36 PM

Last FNR I embedded MANOI’s Accelerometer and Gyro into its back. Usually what people do first when they add these motion sensors is make their robot self balancing. :) For now, I’m going to see if I can do something a little cooler.

The idea stems from a Fast-Fourier Transform result for sound- where you can see the various volumes and such. (Check out my Processing Fancy FFT). What I’m aiming to create is a FFT for motion. Basically, if you move MANOI around, the algorithm will be able to detect a pattern and do stuff afterwards. Essentially what this is leading up to is an interesting dancing robot. =)

I’m starting off with a Processing program that will visualize and log the data (see above screenshot). I envision a split-view display with two cubes. One will be showing the live sensor input, the other will be showing the results of the pattern algorithm to the live data.

No idea yet how the algorithm will turn out. I’m probably going to start at a very basic level, and perhaps add complexities on later. It will be interesting to see how this will turn out!

Soon to be blogged…

  • The FNR that I mentioned, but didn’t blog about
  • RampageRobot!!!
  • RoboGlyphs

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