...Philippe Cardou; Jorge Angeles Among other applications, accelerometer arrays have been used extensively in crashworthiness to measure the acceleration field of the head of a dummy subjected to impact. As it turns out, most accelerometer arrays proposed in the literature were analyzed on a case...

...Zhongkai Qin; Luc Baron; Lionel Birglen This paper presents a robust design scheme for an inertial measurement unit (IMU) composed only of accelerometers. From acceleration data measured by a redundant set of accelerometers, the IMU proposed in this paper can estimate the linear acceleration...

... (KKF) to general rigid body motion leading to the formulation of the multidimensional kinematic kalman filter (MD-KKF). By combining the measurements from the vision sensor, the accelerometers and the gyroscopes, the MD-KKF can recover the intersample values and compensate for the measurement delay...

... test a model-based controller that acts through a motorized manual interface to cancel the effects of biodynamic feedthrough. The cancellation controller is based on characterization data collected using an accelerometer on the vehicle and a force sensor embedded in the manual interface and a protocol...

...David M. Bevly This paper demonstrates the ability of a standard low-cost Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to reduce errors inherent in low-cost accelerometers and rate gyroscopes used on ground vehicles. Specifically GPS velocity is used to obtain vehicle course, velocity, and road grade...

... Editor: J. Ryu. 01 July 2003 24 November 2003 05 08 2004 Global Positioning System vehicle dynamics Kalman filters measurement errors inertial systems aircraft control accelerometers While new steering and braking actuator designs provide new opportunities to shape...

...Bruno Zappa; Giovanni Legnani; Anton J. van den Bogert; Riccardo Adamini This paper identifies the minimum number of accelerometers necessary to measure rigid body acceleration. Notwithstanding that only 9 scalar unknowns must be identified, 12 devices compose a minimum set of transducers...