revg75 / ahrs-visualizer

Draws a 3D representation of an IMU's orientation. Developed for Raspberry Pi and OpenGL ES. Works with minimu9-ahrs.

ahrs-visualizer reads orientation data on its standard input and uses that to display a 3D representation of the orientation.

Currently, the presence of GPU-specific code means that it only works on the Raspberry Pi but it can probably be ported to other boards. It uses OpenGL ES 2.0.

This program runs fine from the console; you do not need to run X.

This program is meant to be used with minimu9-ahrs, a separate utility that reads data from the Pololu MinIMU-9 and computes its orientation. To pipe direction cosine matrix (DCM) data from minimu9-ahrs to ahrs-visualizer, simply run the following command:

minimu9-ahrs | ahrs-visualizer

For documentation of the input data format that ahrs-visualizer expects, please see the documentation of the output format of minimu9-ahrs in its man page.

Understanding the visualization:

• The 3D model is a Pololu MinIMU-9 v2.
• The X axis is drawn as a red line.
• The Y axis is drawn as a green line.
• The Z axis is drawn as a blue line.
• The acceleration vector is drawn as a cyan line.
• The magnetic field vector is drawn as a yellow line.

For help getting started, please see: https://github.com/DavidEGrayson/ahrs-visualizer/wiki.

Building From Source

Navigate to the top-level source directory and run these commands:

sudo apt-get install libpng-dev libboost-program-options-dev
make
sudo make install_assets

Version History

• 1.0.1 (2014-07-09): Added an extra include directory to the Makefile (thanks Shantanu Bhadoria).
• 1.0.0 (2012-11-10): Initial release.