Hi, don’t know what I did wrong but trying to tune a copter I go into Harmonic Notch Filtering process and got resulting FFT graphs displaying only with negative amplitude values:
Is it normal ?
Thanks
Is it normal ?
Thanks
Yes, it is normal and very desired. The measure is a noise to signal ratio.
Positive values would mean more nose than Signal. Nobody wants that.
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Thanks or your reply. I will try to find it. The example is the documentation (Measuring Vibration with IMU Batch Sampler — Copter documentation) shows positive values:
This is why I was doubting about my values
Those (old) Y axis are linear. The (new) ones you have use a logarithmic Y axis.
Control theory literature uses logarithmic Y axis, so ArduPilot changed it to be consistent with the rest of the world.
And there is still the option to use the old Y scaling, if you tick the “magnitude” checkbox.
See the small Magnitude checkbox on the FFT screen in the lower left? Check it before loading a file for a scale (linear) that is actually useful. For FFT analysis to configure the notch filter I don’t find log scale at all useful. Perhaps if the peaks were an order of magnitude or 2 from the baseline it would be.
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Thanks all for your help. I agree with @dkemxr that linear scale is easier to use to identify resonating frequencies, at least in my case.
log scale:
linear scale:
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