
Feasibility study and performance analysis of a gyroless orientation tracker
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- Benoît Huyghe (UGent) , Pietro Salvo (UGent) , Jan Doutreloigne (UGent) and Jan Vanfleteren (UGent)
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- Inertial orientation tracking systems commonly use three types of sensors: accelerometers, magnetometers, and gyroscopes. The angular rate signal is used to obtain a dead reckoning estimate, whereas the gravitational and local magnetic field measures allow us to apply a correction and to obtain a drift-free result. Considering the present market of inertial MEMS sensors, the current consumption of gyroscopes represents a major part of the power budget of wireless inertial sensor nodes, which should be minimized given the mobility of the application. This paper introduces an orientation tracking algorithm, based on an unscented Kalman filter, that does not require angular rate data for tracking human movements up to 450 degrees/s, which is a reasonable value for many applications. Since accelerometers measure other accelerations beside gravity and magnetometers are prone to magnetic disturbances, adaptive techniques are applied in order to reduce the influence on the estimations. The performance of the system is quantitatively analyzed and compared to an estimator that includes angular rate information.
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- SYSTEM, SENSORS, Accelerometer, Kalman filter (KF), orientation tracking, MOTION TRACKING, magnetometer, ACCELEROMETERS, sensor network
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3059651
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- Huyghe, Benoît, et al. “Feasibility Study and Performance Analysis of a Gyroless Orientation Tracker.” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, vol. 61, no. 8, 2012, pp. 2274–82, doi:10.1109/TIM.2012.2187248.
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- Huyghe, B., Salvo, P., Doutreloigne, J., & Vanfleteren, J. (2012). Feasibility study and performance analysis of a gyroless orientation tracker. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, 61(8), 2274–2282. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2012.2187248
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- Huyghe, Benoît, Pietro Salvo, Jan Doutreloigne, and Jan Vanfleteren. 2012. “Feasibility Study and Performance Analysis of a Gyroless Orientation Tracker.” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 61 (8): 2274–82. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2012.2187248.
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- Huyghe, Benoît, Pietro Salvo, Jan Doutreloigne, and Jan Vanfleteren. 2012. “Feasibility Study and Performance Analysis of a Gyroless Orientation Tracker.” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 61 (8): 2274–2282. doi:10.1109/TIM.2012.2187248.
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- 1.Huyghe B, Salvo P, Doutreloigne J, Vanfleteren J. Feasibility study and performance analysis of a gyroless orientation tracker. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT. 2012;61(8):2274–82.
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- [1]B. Huyghe, P. Salvo, J. Doutreloigne, and J. Vanfleteren, “Feasibility study and performance analysis of a gyroless orientation tracker,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 2274–2282, 2012.
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