Three-axial accelerometer calibration using kalman filter covariance matrix for online estimation of optimal sensor orientation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2501-2511

  Beravs, Tadej ^a   Podobnik, Janez ^a   Munih, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Accelerometer calibration; orientation determination; sensor parameter estimation; Unscented Kalman filtering (UKF)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION METHOD; FILTER COVARIANCE; LEAST MEAN SQUARE(LMS); MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; NON-IDEALITIES; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OFFLINE; ON-LINE ESTIMATION; OPTIMAL SENSOR; PARAMETER COVARIANCE; PARAMETER VALUES; SENSOR PARAMETER; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTERING;

ACCELEROMETERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; KALMAN FILTERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RACING AUTOMOBILES; SENSORS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84865255932     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2187360     Document Type: Article

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