This video was so well researched, I found it very useful. I had already integrated the rate angle readings to get an angle, but I had not considered the problem shown at 10:00. Thanks.

Such a fabulous engineer! I am in france am studying engineering. And this year I wanted to build my own quadcopter. Thanks for your videos

Superb, I've checked out a lot of tutorials for MPU-6050 and your video is the best tutorial on the internet on this module. Thank you so much!

Great videos, I stopped by after finding your arduino/PID video. Here I set hours later still watching your channel. I wanted some basic PID understanding for a small rc car control demo, now I just want to scrap the car and go straight to quad. Way to promote your sport and hobby. Well done!

Very good and easy to understand explanation! I'm already looking forward to seeing part 2 :)

Yes, it's indeed becoming fun now. Good fun! And this all while we are getting uducated by Joop. I really enjoyed the maths during the video. Thank you Joop.

GREAT VIDEO - i'm hooked! i've seen these calculations when I was working on a 2wheeled robot (inverted pendulum) and now I understand the principal a lot better. Russ from Coral Springs, Fl usa

Perfect explanation even for laymen. You could maybe add links to further study materials for those, that want to know more about this topic.

Great job! I think MPU6050 is one of the most extended IMU in market as you said. This explanations will help us a lot for understanding the basics about auto-leveling. Waiting for code!

Your video is absolutely the best on MPU-6050 tutorial! Crystal clear and inspiring! Thanks so much!

Very educational video (for me). I was trying a two wheel self-balancing model using only the Acceleration data (with lot of mess on accel valued during wheel action). Learned a lot from the video. Thanks

I'm very impressed with your channel. Thanks, for such a detailed description. Your projects are great

You explanations and illustrations are very good. As are your videos ☺ I have had a gyro lying around for quite some time, but never really got to use it. Now it's time to get started. Thanks for the inspiration.

Thanks for the code! I plan to use this to check the leveling of my RV and maybe auto level in the future.

unrated channel , you deserve more

Great stuff. Looking forward to part 2.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It has helped me tremendously, and has also taught me how to communicate using the I2C protocol without a library!

The best tutorial about MPU-6050 / MPU-9250

wow, thank you so much for this, you have saved me days of work figuring it out

crystal clear explanations. I am just now catching up with this very important knowledge and I am starting to lean towards areal navigation. So these videos are vital for me to understand what is involved to get a vehicle to move in the air. thank you, Sir, for your dedication to spreading knowledge.

Awesome video! This something i've always wanted to understand in that kind of detail, thanks!

You are an amazing teacher, thank you for all the time and effort you are putting in these videos! wow

Still teaching us dummies. You are a legend!!

This is awesome!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

Best video I watched about this topic. Thx

to describe your explanation as good will be insulting, because it is very good , danke !!!

the best channel i have seen ever

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

Hi, Joop! Love your videos so much. Learn a lot from you. In this series, you mention that there are reasons why you would not use mpu6050. Can you explain some of the reason why?

GREAT VIDEO! Concise and a lot of fun to watch.

please keep making these videos. thay are so awsome. you must be a professor

Joop. Very much like your videos. They were very helpful in getting me started. I have a question. In your leveling algorithm, is looks like you use the gyro for quick adjustments to pitch/roll, and the accelerometer for a slower adjustment since the gyro, being an integral function can accumulate error. If I'm understanding it correctly, you sum the x,y,z accel values using pythagorean root-sum-squares method, and assume this largest hypotenus vector is gravity (down direction). But what if I've got my quad in a steady holding pattern doing circles at a 30 degree banked turn. If it was a properly coordinated turn, there would be no x or y accel, and z would be approx 1.15g's. Is there an algorithm that can handle this and still keep track of where true up and down is? Thanks

Awesome video, very easy to follow your teaching. Thanks for your efforts!

thanks you for this tutorial it worked but i made some slight modifications to make it much simplier, if you use the mpu 6050 light library it calculates the angles for you and then you can just apply the filter from this tutorial

Man I love Joop's videos.

You make me laugh and understand at the same time👍

Fantastic video. Never seen such kind of explanation.

Very interresting and inspiring! Even though it is sometimes hard to get it all in my head. Ziet er iig goed uit. Erg leerzaam! Dank je!!

Thank you very much for these very well made video. Keep up the good work

Sir, This is an awesome implementation. What is the method that you used to real-time graphing at 6.14?

Hi Sir, Excellent video!!! You're saving my final project haha. I'd like to know, what software are you using to plot the sensor noisy data? Thanks from Brazil!!

Great video and a great starting point for beginners, really love it. I downloaded your sample code and I am wondering how you simulate the 250 Hz sampling rate. On the line 89 you are using delay(3) but I think it should be 4 as in 4 milliseconds. Then 1/4ms = 250 Hz. The comment on the line 172 also has 4 microseconds whereas it should be either 4 milliseconds or 4000 microseconds. Thought to let you know if you want to update your sample code. Anyway, great videos and tutorials, will definitely follow you. Thanks!

The best part of this video is angle shifting . It's really very tricky

Wonderfull videos. Including the second part. A question: You mentioned that you don't use the MPU-6050 yourself "for various reasons" in your copter project. So my question would be: What do you use instead? Or what would be your recommendation/what are the reasons? And do you have info on where to find more in the interent on improving the code concerning the limitations mentioned in the second video: tilt of the copter leading to an acceleration in an angle? I also saw you recommend SPI ahead of I2C. too bad I currently got an MPU6050. Keep up the great tutorials. They are very interesting and helpful.

very nice video! Im alreay waiting for the next one!

Amazing video! thanks for the explanations

Thanks for your code. It's brilliant!!!

Many thanks Joop for such a comprehensive and helpful tutorial. Two questions, if you don't mind answering them: 1- Could you please explain what are the reasons you don't use MPU-6050 for your projects? 2- I got a Pololu AltIMU-10 v5 at about $23 US. After setting it up, the gyro is set to rest. Without accel-correcting term, the angles drift at a rate of about 0.16 deg/sec. i.e. about 1 deg of drift within each 6 sec. Do you think it is normal?

Omg. I love your explanation

Hello, thanks for your videos and all your work, I have a question about a signal of the mpu6050 in the montage with esc and brushless motot, the signal was good (the angle) but just the motor take on the mpu signal will be bad? ! I didn t understand why, I hope find some help and thanks for the second way

Great video! I learned a lot!

Thanks for this great video, Joop. This is the best tutorial I've found for my project. Does the angular motion at 3:08 read the raw data integers as negative for CCW rotation?

you have a good voice i was able to concentrate on what you were saying.

Great work out of remarkable Knowledge. I started to build my own version with the help of your illustrations. On the other hand I think at min 4:14 it should be angular velocity , not angle_in_degrees

Hi Joop, first of all, thanks for the amazing tutorials and also for the so well commented code! Well, i just read your code for this IMU and did not understood the complementary filter that you used. Two variables you've declared seems not have been initialized on any part of the code but you still used them as follows. Could you please clear that for me? And very sorry for the bothering. *angle_pitch_output* = angle_pitch_output * 0.9 + angle_pitch * 0.1; *angle_roll_output* = angle_roll_output * 0.9 + angle_roll * 0.1;

Great tutorial, thank you.

Hi Joop, Thanks for your awesome video! I found a problem when i run this code. I found this code to have a long response time. For example, when i change the pitch angle to 45 degree in a second, the output_angle increased very slowly, almost cost 1 minutes. So how did you solve this question?

WOW!!! Such great explanations.

So, do you use the accelerometer to measure the angular speed? Is so then what's the use of the gyroscope? I'm confused. Also, can I apply the same principle with my ADXL345? Anyway, I'm confused between the accelerometer, gyroscope and the magnetometer. Do they do the same thing?

Thanks for sharing a great job :)

Nice explanation!

excellent video, mate!

best video ever.....thanks !!!!!!!!

How does this compare to prebuilt IMU sensors like the BNO055? I need to know the absolute orientation of the sensor, even while performing extreme maneuvers, to an accutacy of +- 10 degrees.

dear sir , its great , to watch your video . I am using arduino to make a autonomous drone do i need a pid controller algorithm after this source code????

Thanks, great explanation....

Very well explained....thank you..!!!

Sorry for the ‘dumb question’ question I have while you make it look so easy, but hopefully you can help me out. I have no clue how to work this and no clue about arduino / programming or anything about that.. I build a 4 food rc sailboat and it works just fine. But now I want to use a arduino nano and a gy270 compass for a heading holding on the rudder servo What I would like is that, when I’m not steering on my transmitter, that the arduino and compass keeps its course. But when I steer with the transmitter, that the ‘auto pilot’ interrupts for the time I’m steering. And when I let go of the joystick the auto pilot be delayed for 5sec before it turns back to auto pilot. Can you please help me out?? Thanks man!

Hello dear sir. first i want to thank you a loooooooooooooooooooooot for these tutorials. im trying to implement your YMFC project but i do have problemes during the setup. Indeed, the program stops in the gyro calibration. Do you have any kind of help about that?

Hi if i faced the MPU6050 down still can follow the procedure for YMFC-Al without changes in terms of the sensor.

Hi sir excellent job Did you use a level shifter with the MPU6050? Do you recommend us to connect it directly to a 5v logic? or should we use a level shifter

Great video, explanations and code. I've been trying to get things working with an ESP32-wroom. Getting there. It's somewhat working. Thank you again. I see you've not made too many videos recently. Are you taking a break?

Joop i recently seen your YMFC-AL series and have built my own and love it have been working out some kinks with drift and what not all minor things and am working on some other things, i am new to quads and arduino at that. with all that being said i want to add GPS and more importantly alt hold. for now i want to start with sonar and then will be using another form or alt detection but i am at a loss of how to implement it into the ymfc code. if you would/ could help with this i would be greatly appreciated and i am sure that other noobs would love this as well.

thank you very much for your videos. this is great.

wonderful explanation

Very good videos Joop, thanks.

Hello, great video I am just not sure where you are getting the 250 Hz value

fist of all thanks for the nice explanation! Is it possible to share the code you used for the measurement of one angle?

Thank you very much for sharing this.

Nice video. One safety feature that is missing in all hobby autopilots, is the ability to guess-navigate without GPS, using gyro, accelerometer, and barometer only and by adding a pitch angle to airspeed function to the code. Current autopilots either autoland or return to China when they lose GPS input which isn't ideal. If the drift isn't too much, then it'll be possible to have the autopilot perform a RTH roughly to where it started, without GPS. Such code can be improved by making it learn it's own pitch vs airspeed in flight and calculate wind while it has a GPS signal.

Great explantion!

good video, it helped me a lot. would it be the same with the mpu9250 sensor?

awesome!! thanks a lot

I am following your tutourial but my Gyro is giving in-accurate readings for angle I have found the offset value using 10,000 readings, then initially store the value of accelerometer_angle in the gyro_angle and then use gyro_angle += ((dps)*0.004); dps is value of degrees per second (dps = (G_Y - y)/65.5);.......G_Y is output of gyro, y is offset Is ther a problem with my MPU 6050 ??

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very effective tutorial. it would be very helpful for me if any one clear my following queries: 1. is it possible to represent gyro sensor output in quaternion form?if yes, please suggest. I have gone through lot of materials and research papers, but hardly find the way to do the same. All are telling about quaternion arithmetic but not the steps of converting gyro output to quaternion form.

hey Joop, is it possible to use the Serial monitor instead of the LCD display ?

Thank you. I love your explanation. Can you please explain to me why don't you use the pull-up resisters for the IMU? When do i need to use the pull up register?

hi really nice project. I have uploaded the same code on my arduino but I have problem with the experiment on 10:10 when I'm turning the mpu6050 both pitch and roll changing please help me thanks

Thanks for sharing your project, with including all relevant data to build it! I have question regarding Arduino library. What is LCD library that you use in "MPU-6050_IMU.ino" project?

thank you very much for your video. this is great.

thank you for all videos, would you please share with us the reason for not using the mpu 6050 in your flight controller, thanks in advance

Please turn on the "CC" in the right bottom corner in all your clips.

You are da best my man

If I attach a ruler scale with MPU6050, will it give me 100% accurate angle while installing LCD TV panel on wall in house?

great video! verry well explained

Instead of getting the outputs on the LCD display i want it in my serial monitor. What changes are expected? I have tried directly using Serial.print(angle_pitch_output) but the values change way too slowly. Can anyone help? Thank you.

from where did you get the formula and relation between the roll and the pitch

Does measuring the trajectory of a turning plane only require a gyroscope or also an accelerometer? (for trajectory measurement and not that of pitching) THANKS