Wiki: BNO 055 Absolute Orientation Sensor

This page is about the BNO055 9-Axis Absolute Orientation sensor.

The BNO055 is a Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor with 9 axis or Degrees of Freedom (DoF), all focused on telling you its orientation in space. It can output the following sensor data:

Absolute Orientation (Euler Vector, 100Hz) Three axis orientation data based on a 360° sphere
Absolute Orientation (Quatenrion, 100Hz) Four point quaternion output for more accurate data manipulation
Angular Velocity Vector (100Hz) Three axis of 'rotation speed' in rad/s
Acceleration Vector (100Hz) Three axis of acceleration (gravity + linear motion) in m/s^2
Magnetic Field Strength Vector (20Hz) Three axis of magnetic field sensing in micro Tesla (uT)
Linear Acceleration Vector (100Hz) Three axis of linear acceleration data (acceleration minus gravity) in m/s^2
Gravity Vector (100Hz) Three axis of gravitational acceleration (minus any movement) in m/s^2
Temperature (1Hz) Ambient temperature in degrees celsius

Here's a description from Adafruit:

If you've ever ordered and wire up a 9-DOF sensor, chances are you've also realized the challenge of turning the sensor data from an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer into actual "3D space orientation"! Orientation is a hard problem to solve. The sensor fusion algorithms (the secret sauce that blends accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope data into stable three-axis orientation output) can be mind-numbingly difficult to get right and implement on low cost real time systems.

Bosch is the first company to get this right by taking a MEMS accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope and putting them on a single die with a high speed ARM Cortex-M0 based processor to digest all the sensor data, abstract the sensor fusion and real time requirements away, and spit out data you can use in quaternions, Euler angles or vectors.

Notes#

"If you are designing a sensor solution for a system that has a limited range of motion, you can use Euler angles. But if you are designing a sensor that can be oriented anywhere in space, you should use quaternions." (All About Circuits, ref below)

Modes#

BNO055 Configuration Mode		(Transient Mode)
OPERATION_MODE_ACCONLY	0x01	Accelerometer only
OPERATION_MODE_MAGONLY	0x02	Magnetometer only
OPERATION_MODE_GYRONLY	0x03	Gyroscope only
OPERATION_MODE_ACCMAG	0x04	Accelerometer and Magnetometer only
OPERATION_MODE_ACCGYRO	0x05	Accelerometer and Gyroscope only
OPERATION_MODE_MAGGYRO	0x06	Magnetometer and Gyroscope only
OPERATION_MODE_AMG	0x07	Accelerometer, Magnetometer and Gyroscope (without fusion)
OPERATION_MODE_IMUPLUS	0x08	Inertial Measurement Unit (Accelerometer and Gyroscope Sensor Fusion Mode)
OPERATION_MODE_COMPASS	0x09	Tilt Compensated Compass (Accelerometer and Magnetometer Sensor Fusion Mode)
OPERATION_MODE_M4G	0x0A	Magnetometer and Gyroscope Sensor Fusion Mode
OPERATION_MODE_NDOF_FMC_OFF	0x0B	9 Degrees of Freedom Sensor Fusion with Fast Magnetometer Calibration Off
OPERATION_MODE_NDOF	0x0C	9 Degrees of Freedom Sensor Fusion

References#

BNO055 Intelligent Absolute Orientation Sensor, 9-Asix Sensor Fusion All-in-one Windows 8.x Compliant Sensor Hub (Bosch Datasheet, PDF)
Adafruit 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Fusion Breakout - BNO055, CircuitPython driver library
BNO055 IMU Sensor, (MathWorks documentation, with description)
Euler Angles vs. Quaternions from AllAbout Circuits
Magnetometer Description from VectorNav
AdaFruit BNO055, Product Page
Pololu BNO055 9 DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Module, Product Page
IMU BNO055, Arduino forum discussion

Tags: Sensor