razorimu

Sparkfun Razor IMU driver. More...

Sparkfun Razor IMU driver.

This driver provides support for the Razor IMU, sold by Sparkfun. For this driver to be effective on the Razor IMU, the latest version of the firmware from http://code.google.com/p/sf9domahrs/source/list should be installed on the IMU.

When installing the firmware, the following settings should be configured as true: File: SF9DOF_AHRS.pde #define PRINT_ANALOGS 1 <– must be set to 1.

Compile-time dependencies

• None

Provides

• imu

Requires

• none

Configuration requests

• PLAYER_IMU_REQ_SET_DATATYPE
• PLAYER_IMU_REQ_RESET_EULER
• PLAYER_IMU_REQ_RESET_ORIENTATION

Configuration file options

• serial_port
  • Default: /dev/ttyUSB0
  • Serial port to connect to the IMU with
• baud_rate
  • Default: 57600
  • Baud rate for serial connection
• data_packet_type
  • Default: 4
  • Data packet format from IMU

Example

driver
(
        name "razorimu"
        provides ["imu:0"]
        serial_port "/dev/ttyUSB0"
        baud_rate 57600
        data_packet_type 5
)

Author

Michael F Clarke mfc5@.nosp@m.aber.nosp@m..ac.u.nosp@m.k