Is it possible to find the position of spherical ball only using gyroscope raw data?

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Assuming the spherical ball undergoes pure rolling and errors from gyroscope can neglected. Can I use angular velocity from gyroscope to find the position by computing rotations times its radius?

R.W. Bird · Answer

If your sphere is rolling in a straight line on a hard level surface, then there is no torque which would cause a precession.  Then s = Rωt.

Is it possible to find the position of spherical ball only using gyroscope raw data?

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