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I think MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers used in consumer drones should be just about good enough to measure orientation and acceleration, and those are cheap
by torginus 7mo ago
I think MEMS gyroscopes and accelerometers used in consumer drones should be just about good enough to measure orientation and acceleration, and those are cheap and easy to get.
You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is short enough to make compounding errors easy to ignore.
I think thanks to drones and RC hobbyists, there's a generally nice body of knowledge on how to get good enough data from consumer hardware to keep things flying.
- obidee2 7mo ago> You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is short enough to make compounding errors easy to ignore. ‘Easy to ignore’ is not a term I would use here, especially given the motion environment of a rocket. It seems like it might be beginning to be borderline possible.
- the__alchemist 7mo ago> You could integrate acceleration to get speed - the flight is short enough to make compounding errors easy to ignore. False, given how noisy MEMS IMUs are, and the accuracy required. Even Ring Laser Gyros drift quickly.
- torginus 7mo agoI did a bit of googling and this was the first result: https://www.h4-lab.com/store/p/qmu102 https://www.h4-lab.com/store/p/qmu102 This sensor has a 16G limit, which is well above what an amateur rocket cold and the compounding velocity error at 10G would be something like 0.0002 (m/s)/s. Which is way more than good enough, at least for short flights measured in minutes max.