Pigeon 2.0
User’s Guide
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4.1. Boot behavior - Test Results
The test results demonstrating this feature is shown below. Test setup involved:
•
Pigeon 1.0
(documentation suggests five seconds of stillness required)
•
Pigeon 2.0
(stillness
not
required)
•
Competitor IMU
on roboRIO MXP port (documentation suggests five seconds of stillness required)
All three IMUs were mounted on a fixture that vibrates at approximately 7 Hz. IMUs were all power booted during
vibration and drift was tracked over time. The ongoing vibration prevents all three IMUs from performing no-
motion calibration.
4.1.1. Boot behavior
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Drift Rates
Device
Change in Yaw over 30 sec
Drift
Pigeon 1.0
(Note 1)
+ 1.8 deg
3.6 deg per min
Other 2
nd
Generation
Competitor IMU
(Note 2)
+ 20 deg
40 deg per min
Pigeon 2.0
- 0.10 deg
0.2 deg per min
Note 1:
Pigeon 1.0 User’s Guide clearly states that
IMU requires no-motion on bootup. We do not recommend deviating from
the product documentation during use. The gyro bias prediction is only a feature with
Pigeon 2.0
Note 2:
Competitor IMU Documentation clearly states that IMU requires no-motion on bootup. We do not recommend deviating
from the product documentation during use.