API

USB / UART API to communicate with the IMU Sensor

Sensor Transmit (Tx) API

The sensor transmits data continuously at 100Hz in the format below. Each messages is 19 bytes.

Header

Index

Yaw

Roll

Pitch

X-axis

accel.

Y-axis

accel.

Z-axis

accel.

Reserved

Csum

2 byte

1 byte

2 byte

2 byte

2 byte

2 byte

2 byte

2 byte

3 byte

1 byte

0xAAAA

LSB-MSB

LSB-MSB

LSB-MSB

LSB-MSB

LSB-MSB

LSB-MSB

0x000000

Data

Description

Header

Each message starts with 0xAAAA

Index

8 bit counter (0-255)

Yaw

Rotation around z-axis, range -180 to 180. Clockwise is positive.

0.01 degree increments, e.g. 7435 is 74.35 degrees.

Roll

Rotation around x-axis, range -90 to 90. Counter clockwise positive.

0.01 degree increments, e.g. 1222 is 12.22 degrees.

Pitch

Rotation around y-axis, range -180 to 180. Counter clockwise positive.

0.01 degree increments, e.g. 1356 is 13.56 degrees.

X-axis

acceleration

X-axis acceleration in mg

Y-axis

acceleration

Y-axis acceleration in mg

Z-axis

acceleration

Z-axis acceleration in mg

Reserved

3 bytes set to 0.

Checksum

(Csum)

Sum of index, yaw, pitch, roll, and acceleration.

Sensor Receive (Rx) API

To reset the sensor heading direction (Yaw, Pitch, Roll) to 0 send the following command to the sensor.

$MIB,RESET*87

Example Message

Below is an example message sent by the IMU sensor.

Message: 0xAA AA DE 01 00 92 FF 25 08 8D FE EC FF D1 03 00 00 00 E7

Data

Hex

Value

Index

0xDE

222

Yaw

0x00 01

0.01 degrees

multiply by -1 for counter clockwise

= -0.01 degrees

Roll

0xFF 92

-1.10 degrees

Pitch

0x 08 25

20.85 degrees

X-accel

0x FE 8D

-371 mg or -3.638 m/s2

Y-accel

0x FF EC

-20 mg or -0.196 m/s2

z-accel

0x 03 D1

977 mg or 9.581 m/s2

multiply by -1 for Z-accel. up

= -977 mg

Checksum

0xE7

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