IUM使用指南 2IUM使用指南 2.doc

A Guide To using IMU (Accelerometer and Gyroscope Devices) in Embedded Applications. 在嵌入式应用中使用IMU（加速度计和陀螺仪的设备）指南。(翻译部分) Part 1. Accelerometer 第一部分 加速度计 To understand this unit well start with the accelerometer. When thinking about accelerometers it is often useful to image a box in shape of a cube with a ball inside it.You may imagine something else like a cookie or a donut , but Ill imagine a ball: 要了解这个模块我们先从加速度计开始。当我们在想象一个加速度计的时候我们可以把它想作一个圆球在一个方盒子中。你可能会把它想作一个饼干或者甜圈，但我就把它当做一个球好了： If we take this box in a place with no gravitation fields or for that matter with no other fields that might affect the balls position – the ball will simply float in the middle of the box. You can imagine the box is in outer-space far-far away from any cosmic bodies, or if such a place is hard to find imagine at least a space craft orbiting around the planet where everything is in weightless state . From the picture above you can see that we assign to each axis a pair of walls (we removed the wall Y+ so we can look inside the box). Imagine that each wall is pressure sensitive. If we move suddenly the box to the left (we accelerate it with acceleration 1g = 9.8m/s^2), the ball will hit the wall X-. We then measure the pressure force that the ball applies to the wall and output a value of -1g on the X axis. 我们假定这个盒子不在重力场中或者其他任何会影响球的位置的场中，球处于盒子的正中央。你可以想象盒子在外太空中，远离任何天体，如果很难想象，那就当做盒子在航天飞机中，一切东西都处于无重力状态。在上面的图中你可以看到我们给每个轴分配了一对墙（我们移除了Y+以此来观察里面的情况）。设想每面墙都能感测压力。如果我们突然把盒子向左移动（加速度为1g=9.8m/s^2），那么球会撞上X-墙。然后我们检测球撞击墙面产生的压力，X轴输出值为-1g。 Please note that the accelerometer will actually detect a force that is directed in the opposite direction from the acceleration vector. This force is often called Inertial Force or Fictitious Force . One thing you should learn from this is that an accelerometer measures acceleration indirectly through a force that is applied to one of its walls (according to our model, it might be a spring or something else in real life accelerometers). This force can be caused by the