Quadcopter Orientation Sensors

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The quadcopter : how to compute the pitch, roll and yaw

September 19, 2012 (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/) Alex
(http://theboredengineers.com/author/alex/)
Arduino (http://theboredengineers.com/category/software/arduino/), Quadrirotor
(http://theboredengineers.com/category/diy/quadri/)
The stick IMU from sparkfun:

ADXL345 accelerometer,
ITG3200 gyroscope,
HMC5883L compass.
(http://theboredengineers.com/WordPress3/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/site_bg.jpg)After having introduced here

(http://theboredengineers.com/2012/05/the-quadcopter-basics/) the basics of an aircraft orientation and how to control it, this article is about actually
computing the orientation of the quadcopter in space with sensors and with the Arduino.
Which sensors to use?

3 axis accelerometer + compass for yaw
To get easily the orientation of a non-moving object (pitch and roll), a 3-axis accelerometer (how does it work? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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v=KZVgKu6v808) ) ) can be used. For a static object, it gives the value of the gravity eld on 3 axes, therefore its direction. And since it always points to the
center of the earth, we can therefore know how the accelerometer is inclined with the help of man's best friend, trigonometry.
This method has been used in a lot of smartphones and gives pretty accurate results, if you are not moving. Indeed, if you start translating the phone in
space, you are creating a force on it, therefore you are changing its acceleration.The assumption we made previously to compute the orientation is not valid
anymore, so the calculated orientation won't be accurate.
Another problem of accelerometers is their sensitivity to vibrations.(it is actually not a "problem" per say, it is just a consequence of the forces created by
vibrations, which are essentially shocks). If you want a stable quadcopter, you absolutely need a smooth angle! I think it is by far the most important thing
about a quadcopter. If you're stuck with your PID tuning and that all the settings you try are not ecient, it probably means that your angles are not smooth/
accurate enough.
As you can see, using only an accelerometer is not a valid option. You can of course try to lter the signal and reduce the amount of vibrations received by
the sensor( using some foam or anything to free the accelerometer from the motors vibrations can really change a lot the output of the sensor) but it will
never be precise/ fast enough to satisfy the needs of this application.
Gyroscope
The most common used sensor in quadcopter control boards is the gyroscope sensor. It gives the angular rate around the 3 axes of space in deg/s, so, as for
the accelerometer, some simple maths are needed to compute the actual angle by integration. But using only a gyroscope raises problems:
The rst problem raised is caused by the nature of the sensor. It just gives an angular rate, not an absolute measure. So if you start up the quadcopter
on a crooked oor, the initials pitch/ roll angles shouldn't be 0, but they will be in your program since the gyroscope will just output null angular rates!
All the common MEMS gyroscopes used with Arduinos have a drift. It means that even if you stay steady and don't move, the sensor will output values
dierent than zero. The drift can be pretty big for some sensors (it can go up 2 deg/s on the z axis of our L3G4200d !), therefore ruining the accuracy of
the measurement when you integrate the values ! But it's not as bad as it could sound, most of the gyro drift can be subtracted from the measurement
since it's a constant value (given a certain temperature).
So, both accelerometers and gyros are bad? The answer is no!
There is actually many dierent ways of getting the most accurate orientation from a combination of sensors and they all have their good and bad sides. The
simplest approach we've taken so far for our quadcopter, and which turns out doing pretty good, is a complementary lter.
The idea of the complementary lter is the following : the ltered accelerometer value of the angle is not subject to drift, so we use it to "correct" the value
given by the gyroscope(more precise and less subject to vibrations noises). How do we do that? We combine the two values like so:
GyroPercentage is just a oating value between 0 and 1. It is typically ranged from 0.9 to almost 1, depending on how much you can trust your gyroscope and
accelerometer.
The angle given by this very simple method is actually pretty accurate and isn't too much time consuming for the Arduino. So if you don't want to go too deep
into the maths, I would suggest you to use this method, it is very satisfactory and easy to understand
On the yaw axis, the same complementary lter is used with a compass (which gives the direction of the earth's magnetic eld), giving us the 3D orientation
of the quadcopter like so:
Last, but not least,lter your signals!! It is fundamental to reduce the impact of the frame vibrations on the angle computation, if your computed angles are
not accurate, your quadcopter will never y. It is really the most important thing to do. And ltering the signals means both in software and in the conception
of the frame. Use strong materials (such as carbon ber), try to protect your IMU( Inertial Measurement Unit = Accelerometer + gyroscope + compass) from
the vibrations. On the software side, if your sensors have a built in low pass lter (like on the ITG3200 and the L3G4200D ), activate them by writing in the
good registers. If you want to program your own software low pass lter for you sensors, a simple method is to smooth the values given by the sensor like it
is done in this pseudo C code:
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/*Thiscodeshowsaneasywaytosmoothreadingsfromasensorsubjectto
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Itusesalowpassfilteronacircularbuffer.
ThiscircularbufferalwayscontainsthelastBUFFER_SIZE1readingsfrom
thesensor.
Thenewreadingisthenaddedtothisbuffer,fromwhichwecomputethe
meanvaluebysimplydividingthesumofthereadingsinthebufferbythe
numberofreadingsinthebuffer.
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intindexBuffer;
floatcircularBuffer[BUFFER_SIZE];
floatsensorDataCircularSum;
intBUFFER_SIZE;//Numberofsamplesyouwanttofilteron.
floatfilteredOutput;
floatsensorRawData;//typicallythevalueyoureadfromyoursensor
//inyourloop()function
voidsmoothSensorReadings(){
//Weremovetheoldestvaluefromthebuffer
sensorDataCircularSum=sensorDataCircularSumcircularBuffer[indexBuffer];
//Thenewinputfromthesensorisplacedinthebuffer
circularBuffer[indexBuffer]=sensorRawData;
//ItisalsoaddedtothetotalsumofthelastBUFFER_SIZEreadings
//Thismethodavoidstosumalltheelementseverytimethisfunctioniscalled.
sensorDataCircularSum+=sensorRawData;
//Weincrementthecursor
indexBuffer++;
if(indexBuffer>=BUFFER_SIZE)indexBuffer=0;//Wetestifwearrivedtotheend
//ofthebuffer,inwhichcasewestartagainfromindex0
filteredOutput=(SensorDataCircularSum/BUFFER_SIZE);//Theoutputisthethemean
//valueofthecircularbuffer.
}
What is basically done here is just an average value of the BUFFER_SIZE last inputs from the sensor. This is a simple way to get rid of high frequency noise and
can also be used to smooth PWM inputs from a RC control, for example
If you made it until here, I hope you are now able to implement by yourself your own implementation of orientation computing. It's actually a big area of
research and much more complex solutions are still developed ( I invite you to look at Sebastian Madgwick fusion lter algorithm (http://www.xio.co.uk/node/8)
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29 thoughts on The quadcopter : how to compute the pitch, roll and yaw
MOUSTAFA
January 28, 2013 at 9:20 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-1822)
Hey! AWESOME JOB!

You may be the BEST blog online explaining how to combine accelerometer data and gyro data simply to obtain an accurate angle.
I have some questions though, can you elaborate on how to actually GET the GyroAngle and AccelAngle mathematically?
Another thing, after i get these readings, are they reliable enough to be fed into a PID controller? I'm using only unltered, raw acceleromter data
with a PID controller based on the Arduino PID library on an ArduPilot 2.5 Mega and I'm failing MISERABLY, the thing just keeps on oscillating and
never returning to its setpoint which i set to 0's (so that x and y values are read to zeros)
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks for all the help!
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ALEX (HTTP://WWW.THEBOREDENGINEERS.COM)
January 28, 2013 at 6:03 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-1828)
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Hi Moustafa !
Thanks for your comment, it's nice to see that some people like our articles
If you are only using an accelerometer to get the angles, I'd rather stop you now : there is NO way it can work
As I said in the article, an
accelerometer can only give you the orientation for a static object (which is not really the point of a quadcopter), so you need a gyroscope. You
also should really insist on ltering your sensors data, especially the data from your accelerometer. There are so many vibrations on a
quadcopter that instant readings can get highly inaccurate and generate the oscillations you are talking about!
About actually explaining the angle computing, it's right here (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/05/the-quadcopter-part-1-genesis-of-theproject/)
I will update the article to redirect towards this one in case people want more maths
NLANACONDA
March 29, 2013 at 2:22 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-3391)
Hi Guys,
Wonderfull blog, you giving me some hope again.
I'm trying to do the same thing: building a quad copter.
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I thought I had it all sorted out, angle calculation, calibration, noise reduction, etc.
OK
But as I was playing I did see (in my inexperienced eyes) something weird.
The pitch (or the roll, 1 of them) didn't have a drgree scale from 360 (-180 to 180) but 180 (-90 to 90).
I was braking my head over it, thinking there are 360 degrees on an axis, I only have 180, I must been doing something wrong.
So I started searching the Internet nding solutions I couldn't understand: quaternions, DCM calculations, you name it.
I was giving up. My quad was never going to y.
But now I found your blog and I did read all articles and you make it look (relatively) so simple again.
The math here is simple enough for me to understand and to build further on.
But the question I can't nd an answer to:
1. Do you also have one axis from -90 to 90 degrees?
2. WHYYYYY is it this way? There are 360 degrees on an axis why can I miss 180 of them?
3. Can I go on and buy the moters and stu if I have these steady 360 deg X, 180 deg Y and 360 deg Z readings?
(or am I completely wrong and have you guys sneaky been using these weird quaternions or complex lter thingies, and didn't tell about?)
BEN (HTTP://WWW.THEBOREDENGINEERS.COM)
March 29, 2013 at 11:46 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-3395)
Hi there,
What you can try is this : rst read your raw accelerometer and gyroscope values.
From your accelerometer the raw data is something like proportional to the angle from horizontal. you can nd the coef by rotating your drone
from right vertical to left vertical. Doing this, remark that you made your drone accomplish a 180 rotation, not a 360 one.
For your gyroscope it's a little more touchy since you have no direct way to nd the coef but reading the datasheet that give you the
correspondance between the raw data and the actual (or rad) per second (or min) . Then by multiplying this value by the time for one loop you
nd your angle (you integrate the value actually).
I'm not sure if I answered your question but you can ask more (and maybe give here the incriminated part of your code so we can take a look !)
Last thing : don't give up ! It really worth the headeaches
WILBERT
March 29, 2013 at 6:08 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-3397)
Thanks for your reply,

Well, I already have the degrees from the Accelero and the Gyroscope with a Complementary Filter.
I calculate the angles this way:
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X=atan2(rawX,sqrt(rawY*rawY+rawZ*rawZ))*180/PI;//Thisspitsoutvaluesbetween90to90(180degrees)
Y=atan2(rawY,rawZ)*180/PI;//Thisspitsoutvaluesbetween180to180(360degrees)
So if the plane makes an acrobatic roll of 360 degrees the sensors will pick this up and wont miss a degree of it.
Imagine the plane makes a looping, I will get the same readings for a pitch of 30 and a pitch of 130.
Instead of giving me a value of 130 it gives me a value of 30 again because the scale is 180 degrees instead of 360.
I've put my best photoshop skills in action and made an image to explain:
pitch180degreesscale.png (http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/3774/pitch180degreesscale.png)
In black you see the 360 degrees.
The red arrows point at the degree readings I get.
The red half of the circle is just a mirror of the green.
Ok, in reality the copter wont y upside down and loopings are not my goals. But I break my head over it, WHYY
Do you guys also have a -90 to 90 scale for the pitch?
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I made this movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmT5RPGf6R4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmT5RPGf6R4) )
(Yaw is disabled "0", so
dont look at that).

Im ok when Im not crossing the 90 or -90 degrees barrier. But look what happens when I go upside down.
WILBERT
(Crap I used my nick and real name, in the same guy
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Hi Wilbert!
I see your problem, and if you don't want to get into complex maths I suggest you test the signs of your accelerometer's raw data to know if the
quadcopter is upside down or not. Then you can correct the angle in your code by changing the output value in degrees. It's the quick and dirty
x. Our quadcopter was not supposed to make loops, so the angles could go crazy if it turned around
If you want to get serious about angle computing, Eulers angles have some limitations that make them inappropriate for such a use. In complex
VR applications, quaternions and rotation matrices are always used. It's much less intuitive, but it works better
I recommend you take a look
at Sebastian Madgwick fusion lter algorithm (http://www.x-io.co.uk/open-source-imu-and-ahrs-algorithms/) . He provides a C implementation

of his algorithm in the PDF he wrote. It's so far the best algorithm for orientation computing(even better than Kalman lters, another famous
algorithm). This algorithm is the one used in the FreeIMU library for Arduino, You should take a look at it! It's not that hard to implement. To
understand it is another thing, though
Cheers
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WILBERT
Thanks Alex,
Im not intending to make my quad do loops and other acrobatic stu. I only want to get it airborn. More or less the same as your quad.
I thought I did something fundamentally wrong because I get these readings.
By reading your reply I conclude that it's not a problem. I wont y upside down or do crazy things
Maybe later I will look at algorythms and stu
Thanks and thanks again, I go to the next step
JANNEK
April 27, 2013 at 1:45 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-4097)
Hi, very good explanation.

One question though:
Instead of integrating the compass reading in the complementary lter for the yaw angle, can't i just use the yaw from acc like you did for the
other angles ?
THX!
April 30, 2013 at 11:58 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-4143)
Hi Jannek,
The thing is that you can't get the yaw from the accelerometer only. Let's say the accelerometer is on a at surface on a table, not moving. The
readings on the X,Y,Z axis of the acc should be 0,0,-1 (or 1 depending on where the Z axis is heading). Now, if you turn your acc on this at
surface (so around the Z axis), the readings will still be exactly the same. So you can't really count on it for measuring the yaw. If you don't have
a compass, it actually doesn't matter if you don't need to know if your quadcopter is heading north, south etc... Indeed, the yaw angle is pretty
much useless when it comes to regular piloting of the drone. You want to control the yaw rate with your yaw stick, not its absolute value. And
the gyroscope gives you directly this rate!
Hope I made myself clear
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CHETAN KUMBHAR
July 9, 2013 at 9:24 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-5574)
hey plzzz help me ....i have got the readings from the Gyroscope and Accelerometer. I have displayed it on my LCD for gyroscope i get all the 3 axis zero value wen stable ,bt as i move the board the values changes n setles down to zero whatever may be the orientation.
Accelerometer : on LCD i am getting values as: 1g,2g or (-1g),(-2g)...dats it bec i hav converted the values..using sensitivity parameter given in the
datasheet......
should i convert them or no........plzzz suggest me....or jst use the data which i am getting frm the sensor that is in HEX values format.......
plzzzz do help me...plzzzzz....
Hi,
What do you want to do? I am not going to write the code you should write but I can help you if you tell what your goal is
OK
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August 27, 2013 at 7:02 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-8798)
hey i want to fuse the data of accelerometer and gyro in order to remove the eect of gravity......
plzzz help me asap....
BRUNO F. M. CALLEGARO
Hi, i'm having some problems with high frequency noise even after passing them on the lters. I've enabled the built-in lters in the sensors and
after that, added a rst order low pass lter on both sensors ,and merged them both with the complementary lter and even with all these stu i
sill get very noise readings when my motors reach some velocity. I don't know more what i have to do, someone had the same problem!?
By the way, thank you for the great post you have made , helped me a lot on my building, and sry for my bad grammar.
Hi Bruno, and thanks for your comment !

What percentage of the acc are you using for your complementary lter? Even when it's ltered, it can get very noisy when the motors are
turning. The point of the acc is really just to keep the gyro from drifting, so a percentage as low as 0.003% should do the job, while keeping the
noise away
ANDY
It's a rate gyro. It tells you how fast you are turning not the absolute direction. You have to integrate to get the angle.
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JAN R
September 1, 2013 at 11:20 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-9021)
Hi,
I am glad to read your sites about quadro
!!
My question is: How can I get Angle (accurate) ? from your pattern - If I use Gyropercentage = 1, so Angle from Accelerometer will by a zero! and if
I use 0.9 so the most signicance angle will be from Gyro... Is that correct?
Yes it is!
The accelerometer is only used to correct the drift of the Gyro, which is way less sensitive to the frame vibrations
OK
JAN ROPEK
Thanks for reply!

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I suppose that this video is your job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg) )
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I suppose that this video is your job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg) )
and is in the video used this method retrieve angle?
And how much BUFFER_SIZE did you use for Gyro and how much for Accelerometer (my frequency of reading new data form Gyro and
Accelerometer is 100Hz)?
And Can your Quadro run as autonomous mode?
Yes this video was shot with our own ight controller, so everything you can nd here was applied !
I honestly don't remember which buer size was used, and I don't have the code here, but keep in mmind that the more you atten your
signals, the slower it will react to a movement. So you have to nd a sweet spot by experimenting I guess
Our quad with our custom ight controller could not y autonomously, it was fairly simple. We now use an Ardupilot which can do pretty
much anything, including autonomous ight
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JAN ROPEK
I am little confused how can i get Angle form Gyro: I have Gyro with 250 DPS So I integrate tha value of Gyro but the result it's not a deegre.
Angle+=Gyro_Y*dt;//WhereGyro_YarefiltereddataformYaxisGYRO,anddtisperiodetocalculating,andAngleisresultinDeegres,
but it doesn't work.. where is problem?

JAN ROPEK
I have to multiple by 250 and divide by 65536/2

HARSHITH
October 5, 2013 at 5:41 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-12558)
Hi Alex,
This is really a good place to start with..Congrats..
I'm an amateur in quadrotor topic,
One question(one of the many!!)..
Should we control the horizontal movement of the quadrotor with just yaw,pitch and roll??
i.e..
if quadrotor should move left by 5m,
then roll a little with some throttle(i.e. 5m left with 1m up) ,later reduce the throttle(1m down) to compensate for the altitude??
or
is it possible with other combination of motor control(say motor1 and motor2 combined,)??
Thanks for reply,
ALI
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November 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-14037)
Great Work! This blog was really helpful...

i am having a really tough time regarding my project on yaw,tilt, pitch sensor.. am wondering if you could help! Am really running out of time
HARRISON
December 21, 2013 at 6:03 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-15131)
Hey guys, really, really great work.

It is so freaking impressive to see your drones ying so smoothly and I admire the fact that you built all this after deciding to persevere through
your initial designs.
My friend and I have been trying to get our quad to y with an Arduino Mega (ITG-3200, LSM303DLHC for accel/mag) but the angles that we're
computing are atrocious. They're beautiful when the quad is still, but once the motors start vibrating the chassis our accelerometer goes bonkers
and messes up the pitch and roll values.
We're just trying to get it to hover for now, regardless of yaw. How many points did you need to average for the accelerometer? Did incorporating
the magnetometer readings help a lot? I'll look into this magnetometer lter, thank you so much for sharing your work, this blog is me and my
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June 17, 2015 at 7:58 pm (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-79092)
For stable hovering of a quadrotor, should all the three angles ie roll pitch and yaw angle should be zero?what about d positions?
JAS
February 1, 2016 at 12:32 am (http://theboredengineers.com/2012/09/the-quadcopter-get-its-orientation-from-sensors/#comment-82964)
Hi,
awesome tutorial but one thing i cant gure out is if the accelerometer is used to cancel out the drift, during movement when accelerating wont
that aect the drift correction?
thanks in advance
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The quadcopter : how to compute the pitch, roll and yaw

Arduino (http://theboredengineers.com/category/software/arduino/), Quadrirotor

The stick IMU from sparkfun:

(http://theboredengineers.com/WordPress3/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/site_bg.jpg)After having introduced here

Which sensors to use?

Hey! AWESOME JOB!

As I said in the article, an

Thanks for your reply,

I made this movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmT5RPGf6R4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmT5RPGf6R4) )

(Yaw is disabled "0", so

dont look at that).

(Crap I used my nick and real name, in the same guy

I recommend you take a look

at Sebastian Madgwick fusion lter algorithm (http://www.x-io.co.uk/open-source-imu-and-ahrs-algorithms/) . He provides a C implementation

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Hi, very good explanation.

CHETAN KUMBHAR (HTTP://THEBOREDENGINEERS.COM)

Hi Bruno, and thanks for your comment !

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Thanks for reply!

I suppose that this video is your job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejml0YumyDg) )

but it doesn't work.. where is problem?

I have to multiple by 250 and divide by 65536/2

Great Work! This blog was really helpful...

Hey guys, really, really great work.

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