Sliding average allan variance for inertial sensor stochastic error analysis

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3291-3300

  Li, Jintao ^a   Fang, Jiancheng ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF CONTROL ENGINEERING   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allan variance; gyroscopes; stochastic errors; total variance

Indexed keywords

ALLAN VARIANCE; BIAS CORRECTION; COMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; INERTIAL SENSOR ERROR; POSITION AND ORIENTATION SYSTEMS; RANDOM CHARACTERS; STOCHASTIC ERRORS; TOTAL VARIANCE;

ESTIMATION; GYROSCOPES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RANDOM ERRORS;

EID: 84888035751     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2272841     Document Type: Article

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