This paper presents the modeling of a MEMS based accelerometer in order to detect the presence of a wheel flat in the railway vehicle. A haversine wheel flat is assigned to one wheel of a 5 DOF pitch plane vehicle model, which is coupled to a 3 layer track model. Based on the simulated acceleration response obtained from the vehicle-track model, an accelerometer is designed that meets all the r...

In this paper, the static rolling test of quartz flexible accelerometer in gravitational field is studied. We establish its error model and use the method of total least squares for identification. In addition, we study the influence of environment temperature on the accelerometer. The accelerometer output is corrected by compensation the bias and the scale factor. The results of the comprehens...

Spontaneous activities in 10 beagle dogs housed in an individual cage were recorded continuously for 2 hr by an accelerometer fixed to dogs and by a video camera. The responses of the accelerometer were compared to movements identified from the video tapes. We found that gross differentiation of quantitative spontaneous activities might be possible by using only the accelerometer if the thresho...

An evaluation of a low-cost, small sized solid state accelerometer is described in this paper. The sensor is intended for positioning of a mobile robot or platform. Acceleration signal outputted by the sensor is doubly integrated with time which yields the traveled distance. Bias offset drift exhibits in the acceleration signal is accumulative and the accuracy of the distance measurement deteri...

We discuss the co-design of integrated MEMS accelerometer array designed and fabricated onto the input of a CMOS charge amplifier. The focus of this paper is on two parts of the design flow: Firstly, advanced 3D process emulation and secondly, circuit simulation. We use a "voxel" (volumetric pixel) based process emulation tool that takes 2D masks and a description of the fabrication process, to...

—The measurement precision of Micro Electronic Mechanical System (MEMS) accelerometer are influenced by zero drift, scale factor and installation error. In order to increase the measurement accuracy of the MEMS accelerometer, an improved calibration method is proposed on the basis of traditional six position method. The raw measurements of the MEMS accelerometer not divided by the scale factor...

Robot calibration for an environment is a tedious task that usually involves extensive, if not total, human intervention. However, robots have sensing mechanisms, in particular accelerometers, which could in principle be used to detect specific environmental states. In this paper, we contribute several approaches for robots to detect their state using accelerometer data. In particular, we use a...