Attitude Reconstruction from Inertial Measurement: Mitigating Runge Effect for Dynamic Applications

Dynamics analysis of microparticles in inertial microfluidics for biomedical applications

Inertial microfluidics-based devices have recently attracted much interest and attention due to their simple structure, high throughput, fast processing and low cost. They have been utilised in a wide range of applications in microtechnology, especially for sorting and separating microparticles. This novel class of microfluidics-based devices works based on intrinsic forces, which cause micropa...

Dynamic-Structural Attitude Unit: Concept and Measurement

An Inertial Measurement Framework for Gesture Recognition and Applications

We describe an inertial gesture recognition framework composed of three parts. The first is a compact, six-axis inertial measurement unit to fully capture three-dimensional motion. The second, a gesture recognition algorithm, analyzes the data and categorizes it on an axis-by-axis basis as simple motions (straight line, twist, etc.) with magnitude and duration. The third allows an application d...

Velocity-Aided Attitude Estimation for Helicopter Aircraft Using Microelectromechanical System Inertial-Measurement Units

This paper presents an algorithm for velocity-aided attitude estimation for helicopter aircraft using a microelectromechanical system inertial-measurement unit. In general, high- performance gyroscopes are used for estimating the attitude of a helicopter, but this type of sensor is very expensive. When designing a cost-effective attitude system, attitude can be estimated by fusing a low cost ac...

Initial Attitude Estimation of Tactical Grade Inertial Measurement Unit for Airborne Environmental Camera

The initial attitude estimation of the airborne navigation system greatly affects the overall attitude accuracy. The initial alignment depends on the inertial measurement unit’s performance. In the case of the tactical grade inertial measurement unit, even though tilt angles can be estimated relatively accurately by using accelerometer outputs, it is difficult to determine the azimuth angle wit...