| ??? 07/24/09 02:12 Modified: 07/24/09 02:15 Read: times |
#167785 - You can compensate for centrifugal accelerations, but not... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Steve said:
The actual circuit doesn't make sense, but I wonder if there is something clever, conceptually, along the lines I suggested, where you balance off two identical, but opposed sensors ? I'm sure the circuit they have "drawn" isn't the circuit they have used! If you bring two identical ADXL202 with their sensitive X-axis into a line, pointing to the center of the Earth, then each will measure 1g. Taking the average by summing up their signals and dividing the result by two will yield 1g. Now imagine you put the two ADXL202 into a rocket which is leaving the Earth's surface with an acceleration of 1g, then both ADXL202 will measure 2g. Taking the average again by summing and dividing will also yield 2g. So, the series circuit of two will not help to cancel acceleration affects. Of course, you can reverse one of them and subtract the signals from each other. But this will not change anything. But if you mount them symmetrically to a rotation axis, then you can compensate for centrifugal accelerations. Put the two roll tilt sensors symmetrically to the roll axis, and the two pitch tilt sensors symmetrically to pitch axis (with there sensitive axes pointing to the rotation axes) and you can compensate for the corresponding centrifugal accelerations. This will also automatically compensate for rotations around the yaw axis. Kai |
