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Comment by t0mas88

You don't need GPS to figure out the correction for this. Inertial navigation systems in aircraft (which use very stabilised platforms with a lot of math involved) worked before GPS was available.

It helps to have a rough indication of the current latitude on startup, but you can also figure it out from the gyro outputs. Just takes longer.

With modern sensors (solid state laser gyroscopes) it has all become a lot smaller so if you really want to you can do this in a camera. It's just probably going to be too expensive for what it brings, because 6+ stops of stabilisation is a lot already.

parent t0mas88 2 years ago

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