A Fast and Robust Algorithm for Orientation Estimation using Inertial Sensors

A Fast and Robust Algorithm for Orientation Estimation using Inertial Sensors

Kok, M. (TU Delft Team Jan-Willem van Wingerden)
Schön, Thomas B. (Uppsala University)

2019

We present a novel algorithm for online, real-time orientation estimation. Our algorithm integrates gyroscope data and corrects the resulting orientation estimate for integration drift using accelerometer and magnetometer data. This correction is computed, at each time instance, using a single gradient descent step with fixed step length. This fixed step length results in robustness against model errors, e.g., caused by large accelerations or by short-term magnetic field disturbances, which we numerically illustrate using Monte Carlo simulations. Our algorithm estimates a three-dimensional update to the orientation rather than the entire orientation itself. This reduces the computational complexity by approximately 1/3 with respect to the state of the art. It also improves the quality of the resulting estimates, specifically when the orientation corrections are large. We illustrate the efficacy of the algorithm using experimental data.

Orientation estimation
inertial sensors
complementary filter
multiplicative extended Kalman filter

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d55901e0-121c-4b7b-89aa-cc22cf8adbe3

https://doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2019.2943995

2020-03-26

1070-9908

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 26 (11), 1673-1677

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