gmwm (version 2.0.0)

read.imu: Read an IMU Binary File into R

Description

Process binary files within the

Usage

read.imu(file, type, unit = NULL, name = NULL)

Arguments

file

A string containing file names or paths.

type

A string that contains a supported IMU type given below.

unit

A string that contains the unit expression of the frequency. Default value is NULL.

name

A string that provides an identifier to the data. Default value is NULL.

Value

An imu object that contains 3 gyroscopes and 3 accelerometers in that order.

Details

Currently supports the following IMUs:

• IMAR
• LN200
• LN200IG
• IXSEA
• NAVCHIP_INT
• NAVCHIP_FLT

We hope to soon be able to support delimited files.

References

Thanks goes to Philipp Clausen of Labo TOPO, EPFL, Switzerland, topo.epfl.ch, Tel:[phone] for providing a matlab function that reads in IMUs. This function is a heavily modified port of MATLAB code into Armadillo/C++.

Examples

## Not run: 
# # Relative
# setwd("F:/")
# 
# a = read.imu(file = "Documents/James/short_test_data.imu", type = "IXSEA")
# 
# # Fixed path
# b = read.imu(file = "F:/Desktop/short_test_data.imu", type = "IXSEA")
# ## End(Not run)