Estimating Displacement of Periodic Motion With Inertial Sensors

IEEE Sens J. 2009 Aug 1;8(8):1385-1388. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.917488.

Abstract

Inertial sensors, like accelerometers and gyroscopes, are rarely used by themselves to measure displacement. Accuracy of inertial sensors is greatly handicapped by the notorious integration drift, which arises due to numerical integration of the sensors zero bias error. A solution is proposed in this paper to provide drift free estimation of displacement from inertial sensors.