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Two IMU's on the VOXL

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    It appears that there are two imu's (imu0 and imu1) available on the VOXL. Out of curiousity, what is the motivation behind having two imu's on the VOXL. Do they serve different functions?

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      Mostly for redundancy. In reality only one is typically used. If developers wanted to take advantage of two for fusion they could

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        Mostly for redundancy. In reality only one is typically used. If developers wanted to take advantage of two for fusion they could

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        @Chad-Sweet how many ekf_imu instances would you suggest running on a VOXL-FLIGHT in general, considering a decent workload already on the VOXL -part?
        cheers

        Ch.B.

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