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    Graduate Can I Accurately Measure Bike Wheel Radius with a Rotating Sensor?

    To be honest I think i have an idea but I am not sure if there is something I am not considering... This is my steps of my approach that I am thinking to take a. remove centripedal acceleration b. Using my frequency (it at some point 3 Hz) of bike turn I am able to work out how much angle it has...
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    Graduate Can I Accurately Measure Bike Wheel Radius with a Rotating Sensor?

    Well I know that it would be subtracted out to then give tangential acceleration, however as the axis are moving with sensor on wheel of bike I am a bit confused how I can get an overall displacement. I am thinking that because these axis move with sensor how can I trace out an overall circle?
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    Graduate Can I Accurately Measure Bike Wheel Radius with a Rotating Sensor?

    Well I would like to trace out the displacement of sensor and so get a circle by intergrating acceleration twice. But As you say I have rotational acceleration etc is there anyway I can convert this to linear displacement so that I trace out the wheel circle of radius 30 cm? I am using a dual...
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    Graduate Can I Accurately Measure Bike Wheel Radius with a Rotating Sensor?

    I have attached a sensor measuring acceleration to a bicycle wheel. I was hoping to be able to trace out the circle with accurate measurements for the radius of the bike wheel by integrating my data however I have realized that my sensor is of course undergoing centripetal acceleration however...
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    Undergrad Sensor - accelerations to displacements, error

    Well when I examine the velocity I see that I have drift and it is quadratic. This makes me think that it could be causing error in the position data but I am not sure how to rectify this.
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    Undergrad Sensor - accelerations to displacements, error

    Hello Doctor, This is a algoirthm on Mathlab based upon the trapezium rule as you suggest. I think everything around simpsons rule they have on there needs function and I just have discrete data? Do you think this will solve my problem of being a little out in terms of distance it is not by much...
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    Undergrad Sensor - accelerations to displacements, error

    Hello everybody, apologies from outset for bad English. I wonder if anyone can give me some advice regarding my problem. I have a sesnor that gives acceleration readings. I have been working hard to turn these readings into position or displacements. I tried many method but MATLAB cumptrapz...