Inertial sensor arrays, maximum likelihood, and cramér–rao bound

I Skog, JO Nilsson, P Händel… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A maximum likelihood estimator for fusing the measurements in an inertial sensor array is
presented. The maximum likelihood estimator is concentrated and an iterative solution …

An approach to formulate the Hessian matrix for dynamic control of parallel robots

T Sun, S Yang - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Hessian matrix, one of the most pivotal parts in a robotic system's acceleration model, is
a prerequisite for dynamic modeling and control of parallel robots. Aimed at providing a …

A survey of inertial sensor fusion: Applications in suas navigation and data collection

MW Givens, C Coopmans - 2019 International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inertial sensor arrays, which in this context means sensor arrays composed of
accelerometers, gyroscopes, or a combination of both, have been studied for many years …

Self-calibration of inertial sensor arrays

H Carlsson, I Skog, J Jaldén - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A maximum likelihood estimator is presented for self-calibrating both accelerometers and
gyroscopes in an inertial sensor array, including scale factors, misalignments, biases, and …

Angular velocity estimation using non-coplanar accelerometer array

M Maynard, V Vikas - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last few decades, Gyro-Free Inertial Measurement Units (GF-IMUs) have been
extensively researched to overcome the limitations of gyroscopes. This research presents a …

A nonlinear program for angular-velocity estimation from centripetal-acceleration measurements

P Cardou, G Fournier, P Gagnon - IEEE/AsME Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measuring the trajectory of a rigid body in space is commonly done using an inertial
measurement unit composed of one triaxial accelerometer and one triaxial gyroscope. When …

Novel methods of mitigating lever arm effect in redundant IMU

YH Cho, WJ Park, CG Park - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, two novel methods to mitigate lever arm effect in Redundant Inertial
Measurement Units (RIMUs) are proposed with different approaches. With the presence of a …

Emulating an atomic gyroscope with multiple accelerometers

N Shettell, R Dumke - AVS Quantum Science, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The main advantage of an atomic accelerometer when compared to a classical
accelerometer is negligible bias drift, allowing for stable long-term measurements, which …

Pose and motion estimation of free-flying objects: Aerodynamics, constrained filtering, and graph-based feature tracking

M Gardner, YB Jia - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we investigate the problem of dynamically estimating the instantaneous
position, orientation, velocity, and angular velocity of an arbitrarily shaped object during its …

Using an accelerometer configuration to improve the performance of a MEMS IMU: Feasibility study with a pedestrian navigation application

T Williams, A Pahadia, M Petovello… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2009 - ion.org
This paper proposes a new approach to improve the performance of a MEMS IMU namely
the use of an aiding Gyroscope-Free IMU (GFIMU); a configuration of accelerometers …