MotionApps w/ MPU-6000 and PIC24 MCU using MPLAB X

Hello Dev Community,

I am very new to using motion capture ICs in any type of application. My intended application right now is a hexacopter, a six-rotored helicopter like craft for which self-stabilization is a basic requirement.

The system I am using to control motor speed is a PIC24 (specifically the PIC24HJ32GP202) using MPLAB X to develop my application.

I have downloaded the umpl.zip platform source files, but now I'm stuck. I do not know what to do with these files. Do I include them in my project in MPLAB directly? Do I have to build any of these files? What do I include in my primary program headers to have access to the platform?

I consider myself a relatively competent programmer but the "user guides", "application notes", and "specification sheets" only tell me what each function does on a very general level and which address goes to which register name. I need information like what data do I need to pass to these functions? Is there a calibration/initialization stage that I need to execute before I go into my main program? How do I access these things from my PIC24 program in MPLAB? The current documentation provides me with none of this information.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide, it will be greatly appreciated.