Android phone accelerometer as motion tracker?

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jorrebor

in General Discussion • Other • 2 years ago

Hi everyone!

for a while now i have been trying to use my android phone as a motion tracker, like a wiimote Plus or Playstation move.

Is this in anyway possible or is the accelerometer of my HTC desire simply not engough DOF (what i am guessing)?

While being very accurate on rotation movements, lateral movement are very hard to detect (especially on constant speed).

Anyone experience with this? Any tips and tricks are highly appreciated!

bye

Jorrit

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andres

2 years ago

You can certainly use the accelerometer to detect a variety of motions. These series of posts:

Movement patterns

Shake-walk-run

is very interesting because it shows how to detect walking with the accelerometer.

However, movements at nearly constant speed are problematic, since in that case the acceleration is zero.