Controlling of Servo Motor with Arduino and MPU6050

In this tutorial we will get data from a MPU6050 Gyroscope and control a Servo motor according to the movement of MPU6050.

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Controlling of Servo Motor with Arduino and MPU6050

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Arduino UNO

DFRobot 6 DOF Sensor - MPU6050

SG90 Micro-servo motor

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Story

Components

Connections

Check the attach diagram for connections

Note: You can also connect SDA and SCL pins of MPU6050 to A4 and A5 pin of Arduino respectively.

Programming

Include the attached library in your arduino IDE, then upload the code in your Arduino board.

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Code

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//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvtr3LKdqvk


#include <GY6050.h>           //library for GYRO 
#include <Wire.h>
#include <Servo.h>

Servo myservo;  // create servo object to control a servo


int X = 0;
int Y = 0;
GY6050 gyro(0x68);              //to save GYRO data


void setup() {

  Wire.begin();            //initializing GYRO
  gyro.initialisation();
  delay(100);
  myservo.attach(9);
}

void loop() {
  X = map(gyro.refresh('A', 'X'), -90, 90, 0, 180);                //mapping the gyro data according to angle limitation of servo motor 
  Y = map(gyro.refresh('A', 'Y'), -90, 90, 0, 180);
  myservo.write(Y);                                               //movement of Y axis will control servo
 delay(15);

}

Credits

Hammad Iqbal

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I'm an Electrical Engineer and here I'm to share my knowledge about Embedded system.

Controlling of Servo Motor with Arduino and MPU6050