Constrained angular motion estimation in a gyro-free IMU

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 596-610

  Edwan, Ezzaldeen ^a   Knedlik, Stefan ^a   Loffeld, Otmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ACCELERATION; ANGULAR MOTIONS; ATTITUDE ACCURACY; DIRECTION COSINE; EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; GYRO-FREE; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INFORMATION VECTOR; MONO-AXIAL ACCELEROMETERS;

ACCELEROMETERS; ESTIMATION; GYROSCOPES; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 79551617195     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.5705694     Document Type: Article

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