Design and Implementation of a Mechatronic, All-Accelerometer Inertial Measurement Unit

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 640-650

  Parsa, Kourosh ^a   Lasky, Ty A ^b   Ravani, Bahram ^b  

^a ESAB Welding and Cutting   (Italy)

^b University of California   (United States)

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EID: 85008043185     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: 1941014X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.910080     Document Type: Article

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