This paper discusses the evolution of the SS-411 series digital sun sensor. The earlier SS-256 and SS-330 models have proven themselves in orbit on low cost satellite missions. The SS-411 represents a further hardware revision with enhanced robustness and improved attitude estimation performance. To complement the latest hardware improvements, researchers in the Space Avionics and Instrumentati...

The calibration parameters of a vector magnetometer are estimated only by the use of a scalar reference magnetometer. The method presented in this paper differs from those previously reported in its linearized parametrization. This allows the determination of three offsets or signals in the absence of a magnetic field, three scale factors for normalization of the axes and three non-orthogonalit...

The paper presents inertial sensor based human-computer interface for the disabled. The device uses commercially available inertial sensor pack to reliably measure 3D head orientation (via Kalman filtering of accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer measurements) which is then transformed into appropriate control signal(s) depending on the intended application scenario. In order to measure inf...

In this study, a novel method to obtain user-dependent human activity recognition models unobtrusively by using the sensors of a smartphone is presented. The recognition consists of two models: sensor fusion-based user-independent model for data labeling and single sensor-based userdependent model for final recognition. The functioning of the presented method is tested with human activity data ...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) launches and maintains a network of satellites to monitor the meteorological, oceanographic, and solar-terrestrial physics environments. In the past decade, geomagnetic field modelers have focused much attention on magnetic measurements from missions such as CHAMP, Ørsted, and SAC-C. With the completion of the CHAMP mission in 2010, there has ...

The Sun SPOT platform allows sensor network nodes to be programmed in Java and is therefore well suited for prototyping new sensor network protocols. The design of the Sun SPOT network stack however, makes it hard to replace the default IEEE 802.15.4 based MAC implementation. We therefore introduce the ‘anyMAC project’: a number of alterations to the default Sun SPOT network stack. The resultin...

Magnetic data consists of a sequence of collected points with spatial coordinates and magnetic information. The spatial location of these points needs to be as exact as possible in order to develop a precise interpretation of magnetic anomalies. GPS is a valuable tool for accomplishing this objective, especially if the RTK approach is used. In this paper the VRS (Virtual Reference Station) tech...