Implementation of a Low- Cost Multi- IMU by Using Information Form of a Steady State Kalman Filter

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Department of Electrical, Biomedical and Mechatronics Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this paper, a homogenous multi-sensor fusion method is used to estimate the true
angular rate and acceleration with a combination of four low cost (< 10$) MEMS Inertial Measurement
Units (IMU). An information form of steady state Kalman filter is designed to fuse the output of four low
accuracy sensors to reduce the noise effect by the square root of the number of sensors. A hardware is
implemented to test the method with three types of experiments: static test, constant rate, and oscillating
test. Results of static test for z-axis show that ARW coefficient reduces to 0.0022°/√s and VRW error is
decreased by %50. Also, dynamic test results show the reduction of the standard deviation of combined
rate signal up to six times compared with a single sensor. A comparison between the proposed filter and
the simple averaging method is made in which the results indicate that the Kalman filter is more accurate
compared to the averaging method.

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AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering
Volume 49, Issue 2
December 2017
Pages 195-204

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