- To help track the location of the robot on the field, a device can be used that combines two sensors:
- accelerometer - track the change in velocity over time; integrate twice to find distance traveled
- gyroscope - track the rate of turning; integrate over time to calculate the total angle turned
FRC teams typically use one of these two products as navigation sensors:
- A small board that connects into the CAN bus
- Made by Cross the Road Electronics
- Pigeon (Discontinued) Product Page
- Pigeon 2 Product Page
- Software Reference (for all CTRE products)
- A larger board that plugs directly into the large expansion port on the RoboRIO
- Made by Kuali Labs
- NavX Product Page
- NavX Programming Reference