Not fully overlapping allan variance and total variance for inertial sensor stochastic error analysis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2659-2672

  Li, Jintao ^a   Fang, Jiancheng ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Allan variance; gyroscopes; stochastic errors; total variance

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ALLAN VARIANCE; COMPUTATION BURDEN; CORRELATION TIME; POSITION AND ORIENTATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC ERROR MODELS; STOCHASTIC ERRORS; TOTAL VARIANCE;

ACCELEROMETERS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; GYROSCOPES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84884417890     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2258769     Document Type: Article

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