Quaternion-based kalman filter with vector selection for accurate orientation tracking

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2817-2824

  Zhang, Zhi Qiang ^a   Meng, Xiao Li ^b   Wu, Jian Kang ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Inertial sensing; Kalman filter; orientation tracking; quaternion; vector selection

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; BODY ORIENTATION; GROUND TRUTH; HUMAN BODIES; INERTIAL SENSING; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; LINEAR KALMAN FILTERS; LINEAR PROCESS; MAGNETIC DISTURBANCE; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; ORIENTATION TRACKING; PSEUDO MEASUREMENTS; QUATERNION; SELECTION SCHEME; SENSOR UNITS; SYNTHETIC ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; VECTORS;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 84866513822     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2012.2196397     Document Type: Article

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