In the process of building a quad-copter ( =20
http://www.veisystems.com/nose/quarc.html ), and researched some of =20
this recently.

First, I've seen a Kalman filter implemented in a 16F, so allegedly =20
that's possible.
However, I didn't see that a kalman filter is required for a =20
quad-copter.  We started doing our own quad-copter code with an =20
Arduino, but found an open-source implementation last week, so decided =20
to use that for now, and build this project incrementally until we =20
(that really means me) have more time to research PID.  At that time, =20
we'll roll our own code.

Cheers,
-Neil.



Quoting Nathan House <nathanpiclist@gmail.com>:

> Sometime over the next six months or so (planning ahead) I'm going to
> try to write a Kalman filter for a PIC. I first want to use it to
> integrate signals from one gyroscope and one accelerometer to
> detect/predict tilt for a balancing robot, and then eventually I want
> to make something called a quadrotor helicopter.
>
> I'm wondering:
>
> #1 - Is this something that can be done reasonably well on a PIC? And,
> #2 - Would a PIC18, dsPIC, or PIC32 be best for this project?
>
> I don't understand the theory (i.e. the math) behind Kalman filters
> yet, so I'm just looking for some advice to get me started in the
> right direction.
>
> Thanks!
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