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07/23/09 20:12
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#167774 - Seems to work with subtraction
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Steve M. Taylor said:

Hi Farshid,
I wondered where you had got to ! Finished with the army ?

My guess is they have the other accelerometer positioned [i]backwards[/i] to the first, then a positive acceleration on one appears as a negative acceleration on the other, and when the outputs are summed , they are zero from the acceleration. I suspect that you may also get a free amplification of the angle result.

Steve


Hi Steve,
I finished the military service about 2 years ago and ended up in Sweden for studying masters. So I am much closer to some of the European members of 8052.com

Lets say the accelerometer acts as below (ADXL202 that I have in hand acts sort of the same) :
0 degree to 180 degree = 2 volts to 3 volts
180 degree to 360 degree = 3 volts to 2 volts

So if we place two sensors facing different directions like below :

-----A1------->
<-----A2-------

then at the position if the one is subtracted from the other we will end up with :
2.5 - 2.5 = 0

if we rotate it -90 degrees :

/-/
|--|
|--|
|--|
AA
1-2
|--|
|--|
|--|
/-/

it will give :
A1 (2) - A2(3) = -1

and if we rotate it +90 degrees :

/-/
|--|
|--|
|--|
AA
1-2
|--|
|--|
|--|
/-/

it will give :
A1 (3) - A2(2) = 1

This is true if I am interpreting this correctly. But some how I feel I am wrong somewhere. Last night I was pretty sure that if added or subtracted the result will be zero !
I have to think it over again.

This is killing me!,
Farshid

List of 24 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Accelerometers as angle sensor, analog circuitry            01/01/70 00:00      
   Integrators ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Seems to work with subtraction            01/01/70 00:00      
         There's no need to use two of them...            01/01/70 00:00      
   A bunch of baloney??            01/01/70 00:00      
      Shame it won't work.            01/01/70 00:00      
         You can compensate for centrifugal accelerations, but not...            01/01/70 00:00      
            How to use Accelerometers as angle sensors            01/01/70 00:00      
               Bloody hell, are you trying to solve this relativistically?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  The problem            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Could this be correct?            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Yes, if...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Understood but the theird method...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Upward and downward...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Am I thinking in 2 Dimensions and you in 3D ?            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Centrifugal acceleration            01/01/70 00:00      
               What I wanted to tell...            01/01/70 00:00      
      Filter you guess then ?            01/01/70 00:00      
         It is a differential amplifier...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Schematics            01/01/70 00:00      
               Yes, but still looking funny...            01/01/70 00:00      
   Gyroscope            01/01/70 00:00      
      Gyro            01/01/70 00:00      
      Gyro ?            01/01/70 00:00      

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