Activity recognition that recognises who a user is by what they are doing at a specific point of time is attracting an enormous amount of attention. Whilst previous research in activity recognition has focused on wearable dedicated sensors (body worn sensors) or using a smartphone’s sensors (e.g. accelerometer and gyroscope), little attention is given to the use of wearable devices – which tend...

The design, development and performance evaluation of a novel radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscope, based on a surface acoustic wave resonator (SAWR) and a surface acoustic wave sensor is presented in this paper. Most of the MEMS gyroscopes based on silicon vibratory structures that utilize the energy transfer between the two vibratory modes demand small fabrication t...

Obtaining a correlation factor is a prerequisite for fusing multiple outputs of a mircoelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope array and evaluating accuracy improvement. In this paper, a mathematical statistics method is established to analyze and obtain the practical correlation factor of a MEMS gyroscope array, which solves the problem of determining the Kalman filter (KF) covariance matrix...

a gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation , based on the principles of conservation of angular momentum . the device is a spinning wheel or disk whose axle is free to take any orientation. this orientation changes much less in response to a given external torque than it would without the large angular momentum associated with the gyroscope's high rate of spin. since exter...