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How to continue Motion Detection with MMRL SensorFusion after unexpected Disconnect

toffy_deetoffy_dee
in Android

Hi there,

I want to detect certain motions of the upper arm by using SensorFusion. Leaving unexpected disconnects aside it works quite well so far with the following steps:
1. user places sensor on arm and stays still for a while, SensorFusion is started (as in the Meta-ROM App)
2. i take the quaternion of that initial position.
3. use initial position quaternion to interpret the new incoming quaternions as upper arm motions

Problem
after an unexpected disconnect i have to reconnect and restart the SensorFusion, which will begin with a different initial position, which in turn will mess up my motion detection. i want to avoid making the user go into the start position and stand still for a few seconds again.

Question:
1. is it possible to keep streaming the SensorFusion after a disconnect so it wont restart with fresh initial values?
2. or if i would roughly infer the sensor position with sensorFusion.GRAVITY, could I write a start quaternion into the sensorFusion so all later incoming quaternions are relative to that written start quaternion?
"sensorFusion.writeCalibrationData(startQuaternion);" as described in https://mbientlab.com/androiddocs/latest/sensor_fusion.html.

Thanks so much!

Comments

  • LauraLaura
    1. No this is not possible. streaming requires a connection. You could try to go into logging mode instead after a disconnect and then back to streaming once it connects again (use our event module).
    2. You would need to do this in software.
  • toffy_deetoffy_dee

    Thanks for your reply!

    1. No this is not possible. streaming requires a connection. You could try to go into logging mode instead after a disconnect and then back to streaming once it connects again (use our event module).

    i like the idea, but i am struggling at implementation now. i took a look at the MetaBase source code and found the code snippets for logging and streaming with "addRouteAsync(...)".

    More Questions:
    1. What are you refering to with "event module"? i dont find anything like that in the SDK documentation.
    2. is there any example code of using this event module, even it its not about for SensorFusion?

    Thanks

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