Quaternion-based unscented kalman filter for accurate indoor heading estimation using wearable multi-sensor system

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 10872-10890

  Yuan, Xuebing ^a   Yu, Shuai ^a   Zhang, Shengzhi ^a   Wang, Guoping ^b   Liu, Sheng ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heading estimation; Indoor navigation; Multi sensor; Quaternion; Unscented kalman filter; Wearable

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GYROSCOPES; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; MAGNETOMETERS; MEMS; NAVIGATION; NONLINEAR FILTERING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES; WEARABLE ANTENNAS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; MULTI SENSOR; QUATERNION; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER; WEARABLE;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84929378520     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150510872     Document Type: Article

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