IMU Data to Motion: Tutorial for Translating Sensor Data into Real-World Movement
ROB-24601 
The Project
I’ve always been a fan of flying, and eventually of flight simulators. So of course, I’ve always wanted to build a chair frame that would move in concert with the movements of my onscreen plane, whether it’s a Cessna 172 or a Airbus H225 helicopter. So in order to do this, I want to read the movement or position of our yolk or stick. Note: I know that when it actually comes to creating a chair frame that moves based on the movement of the flight stick, the movements will need to be measured from local axes, and a magnetometer, like I’m using in this example, bases its measurements on global axes. This is just a broad look at how to translate sensor data into motion, and can then be tailored to fit the needs of each project. Planes use cables to control the ailerons and elevator, and if you’re planning on building an experimental aircraft, I’m going to suggest not using this method., but if something goes wrong on a Flight Sim build, a catastrophic control failure would, at worst, toss toss onto the floor.
For testing the concept, I’m going to translate the sensor data to a pair of small servos. I 3D printed a small rig and a tiny chair for my little lego fly-boy. The initial concept worked just fine, I only needed to tweak the limits of the servo travel.