Sensor saturation compensated smoothing algorithm for inertial sensor based motion tracking

Sensors (Basel). 2014 May 6;14(5):8167-88. doi: 10.3390/s140508167.

Abstract

In this paper, a smoothing algorithm for compensating inertial sensor saturation is proposed. The sensor saturation happens when a sensor measures a value that is larger than its dynamic range. This can lead to a considerable accumulated error. To compensate the lost information in saturated sensor data, we propose a smoothing algorithm in which the saturation compensation is formulated as an optimization problem. Based on a standard smoothing algorithm with zero velocity intervals, two saturation estimation methods were proposed. Simulation and experiments prove that the proposed methods are effective in compensating the sensor saturation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Accelerometry / instrumentation*
  • Accelerometry / methods*
  • Algorithms*
  • Artifacts*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Motion*
  • Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted*