IMU readout latching in saturated state

[mkriesel]

Hello,

I have been doing alot of test recently with a voxl2 mini and I have come across an issue that I'm hoping I can get some help with. After extreme shock the app proc imu, the one from the voxl-imu-server, the imu becomes extremely saturated and seems to lock at this saturated state. shown in the graph below is the accels and the y reaches 156 m/s2 and never comes back down. This seems to be resolved with a reset of the entire system, so power off power on of the voxl, however that isn't really an option during operation so I'm wondering if there is a way to reset or power cycle only the imu in hopes to correct this without having to shut down the entire system? Any leads on this are helpful.

[Alex Kushleyev]

@mkriesel , there is no way to turn off power to just the IMU. It seems your IMU is "broken" and it may not be safe to use it for any application that might involve moving parts

You can try to restart voxl-imu-server, which will perform a complete re-init of the sensor, but this will probably not fix the actual issue even if it helps with temporarily recovering the sensor from the latched state.

Alex