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Santa Cruz Low-cost UAV GNC System
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Temperature compensation. It does matter.

Posted by: Mariano I. Lizarraga

Temperature compensation is one of those capabilities that when included in a sensor board can go a long way to reduce the temperature dependence on the computed measurements. The SLUGS AP includes a low-power active thermistor from Microchip (
MCP9701A). This thermistor is really cheap and requires very little board real state. In our case, the thermistor has proven essential to conduct temperature compensation on our sensor measurements.

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