Physical model of a MEMS accelerometer for low-g motion tracking applications

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1345-1351

  Ang, Wei Tech ^a   Khoo, Si Yi ^a   Khosla, Pradeep K ^a   Riviere, Cameron N ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Modeling; Motion tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MOTION PLANNING; POLYSILICON; SENSORS;

CROSS AXIS EFFECT; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY; MOTION TRACKING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042580729     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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