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Old 15th July 2011 | 07:22
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18-Wheeler
 
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Really cheap INS?

I was thinking the other day about how cheap you could make an INS - I then realised you could probably do it with the later smartphones on the market.
I've got an HTC Desire HD and inside it's little case is -
Three-axis accelerometers
Three-axis gyros

I don't know how accurate they are or what the resolution is, but could a cheap & cheerful INS be obtained from a suitable app? (Yes I've looked, couldn't find one)
And yes GPS has made a lot of this sort of thing redundant, but it'd be interesting to see how your mobile phone works as an INS in-flight .... in flight mode of course.
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