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    copied!<p>I am developing application for car acceleration tracking. I used standard accelerometer, calibrating it in specific position beforehand.</p> <p>Then, assuming phone's orientation is not changing, I logged the accelerometer data for a specified time and calculated move parameters, one of which is the car's speed at the end of the test.</p> <p>It works rather well, on a straight, horizontal road: error of a few percent.</p> <p>But then I found out, that in API-level 10 there is a virtual sensor called <code>TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION</code> and, as far as I understand, it must do what I need: filter gravity, orientation changes - so I may use it and get pure linear acceleration of mobile device.</p> <p>BUT in real life..</p> <p>I made a simple application, that does a little test:</p> <pre><code>//public class Accelerometer implements SensorEventListener { ... public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent se) { if(!active) return; lastX = se.values[SensorManager.DATA_X]; lastY = se.values[SensorManager.DATA_Y]; lastZ = se.values[SensorManager.DATA_Z]; long now = System.currentTimeMillis(); interval = now - lastEvetn; lastEvetn = now; out.write(Float.toString(lastX) + ";" + Float.toString(lastY) + ";" + Float.toString(lastZ) + ";" + Long.toString(interval) + "\n"); } </code></pre> <p>I bind a listener with the following parameters:</p> <pre><code> mSensorManager.registerListener(linAcc, mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION), SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_GAME); </code></pre> <p>It works OK, but when I analyzed data dump, calculating speed like <code>V = V0 + AT</code>, where <code>V0 = 0</code> at first, then - speed of interval before this, <code>A = acceleration (SQRT (x*x+y*y+z*z))</code> (t = time of interval), eventually I get a very low speed - three times less than real speed.</p> <p>Changing Sensor type to <code>TYPE_ACCELEROMETER</code>, calibrating and using same formula to calculate speed - I get good results, much closer to reality.</p> <p>So, the question is: </p> <p>What does <code>Sensor.TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION</code> really show?</p> <p>Where am I wrong, or is something wrong with <code>Sensor.TYPE_LINEAR_ACCELERATION</code> implementation?</p> <p>I used Samsung Nexus S phone.</p>
 

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