Sensors

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Status: OPEN
[open, in-progress, needs-analysis, conclusion]

Description
Knowing where you are and where you are heading is very handy for ROVs, so we are looking into adding additional sensors to aid in localization and attitude estimation. Sensors being considered: compass (single or multi-axis magnetometer), gyroscope, pressure transducer, acoustic positioning.

The OpenROV is great for exploration and research, and the more data it can gather, the more useful it will be, both for it's own operation and for its environment. The base platform is still the focus of development so sensor positioning, hardware/software integration, etc is up to the community for now.

Discussions

 * How will position/depth be reported?
 * Sensors (forum)
 * Using a simple liquid filled compass

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