How magnetic disturbance influences the attitude and heading in magnetic and inertial sensor-based orientation estimation

B Fan, Q Li, T Liu - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
With the advancements in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies, magnetic
and inertial sensors are becoming more and more accurate, lightweight, smaller in size as …

Kalman-filter-based integration of IMU and UWB for high-accuracy indoor positioning and navigation

D Feng, C Wang, C He, Y Zhuang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as smart manufacturing and smart
home, lead to a huge demand on the provisioning of low-cost and high-accuracy positioning …

Inertial sensors—Applications and challenges in a nutshell

T Seel, M Kok, RS McGinnis - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
This editorial provides a concise introduction to the methods and applications of inertial
sensors. We briefly describe the main characteristics of inertial sensors and highlight the …

Analysis of the accuracy of ten algorithms for orientation estimation using inertial and magnetic sensing under optimal conditions: One size does not fit all

M Caruso, AM Sabatini, D Laidig, T Seel, M Knaflitz… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The orientation of a magneto and inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is estimated by means
of sensor fusion algorithms (SFAs) thus enabling human motion tracking. However, despite …

VQF: Highly accurate IMU orientation estimation with bias estimation and magnetic disturbance rejection

D Laidig, T Seel - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
The miniaturization of MEMS-based inertial measurement units (IMUs) facilitates their
widespread use in a growing number of application domains. The fundamental sensor …

An auto-calibrating knee flexion-extension axis estimator using principal component analysis with inertial sensors

T McGrath, R Fineman, L Stirling - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been demonstrated to reliably measure human joint
angles—an essential quantity in the study of biomechanics. However, most previous …

Exploiting kinematic constraints to compensate magnetic disturbances when calculating joint angles of approximate hinge joints from orientation estimates of inertial …

D Laidig, T Schauer, T Seel - 2017 International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) have become a widely used tool for rehabilitation and
other application domains in which human motion is analyzed using an ambulatory or …

Artificial neural networks in motion analysis—applications of unsupervised and heuristic feature selection techniques

M Mundt, A Koeppe, F Bamer, S David, B Markert - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The use of machine learning to estimate joint angles from inertial sensors is a promising
approach to in-field motion analysis. In this context, the simplification of the measurements …

Estimating three-dimensional body orientation based on an improved complementary filter for human motion tracking

C Yi, J Ma, H Guo, J Han, H Gao, F Jiang, C Yang - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Rigid body orientation determined by IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) is widely applied in
robotics, navigation, rehabilitation, and human-computer interaction. In this paper, aiming at …

Orientation estimation through magneto-inertial sensor fusion: A heuristic approach for suboptimal parameters tuning

M Caruso, AM Sabatini, M Knaflitz… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magneto-Inertial Measurement Units (MIMUs) are a valid alternative tool to optical
stereophotogrammetry in human motion analysis. The orientation of a MIMU may be …