Neo1973 Update!

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Mon Jun 4 14:02:13 CEST 2007


On Monday 04 June 2007 10:31, openmokolist.50.minime at xoxy.net wrote:
> > the GPS daemon would need to be updated to allow for kallman filtering
> > using those accelerometers, so that the GPS apps could continue pointing
> > the phones location inside tunnels and stuff
>
> Unfortunately not. As already pointed out on that list, the
> accelerometers error would add up itself.
>
> Besides: Its only two accelerometers. You can do 2-dimensional
> 'navigating' with that, no more. No tilting/rotating.
>
In his presentation (already posted but see link below) Sean says it has 2 3D 
accels so tilt and rotate should be available. Still no good for inertial 
navigation though ;-)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8574715471341709984




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