A standard testing and calibration procedure for low cost MEMS inertial sensors and units

Journal of Navigation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 323-336

  Aggarwal, P ^a   Syed, Z ^a   Niu, X ^a   El Sheimy, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

GPS; INS; MEMS; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMS; SENSORS;

CALIBRATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; NAVIGATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

EID: 41549138756     PISSN: 03734633     EISSN: 14697785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0373463307004560     Document Type: Article

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