Low-Cost Inertial Measurement Unit Calibration With Nonlinear Scale Factors

Zhang, Xin, Zhou, Changle, Chao, Fei, Lin, Chih-Min, Yang, Longzhi, Shang, Changjing and Shen, Qiang (2022) Low-Cost Inertial Measurement Unit Calibration With Nonlinear Scale Factors. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 18 (2). pp. 1028-1038. ISSN 1551-3203

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2021.3077296

Abstract

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been widely used to provide accurate location and movement measurement solutions, along with the advances of modern manufacturing technologies. The scale factors of accelerometers and gyroscopes are linear when the range of the sensors are reasonably small, but the factor becomes nonlinear when the range gets much bigger. Based on this observation, this article presents a calibration method for low-cost IMU by effectively deriving the nonlinear scale factors of the sensors. Two motion patterns of the sensor on a rigid object are moved to collect data for calibration: One motion pattern is to upcast and rotate the rigid object, and another pattern is to place the rigid object on a stable base in different attitudes. The rotation motion produces centripetal and Coriolis force, which increases the measurement range of accelerometers. Four cost functions with different weight factors and two sets of data are utilized to optimize the IMU parameters. The weight factor comes from derived formula with input values which are the variance of the noise of the sampled data. The proposed approach was validated and evaluated on both synthetic and real-world data sets, and the experimental results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed approach in improving the accuracy of IMU for long-range use. In particular, the errors of acceleration and angular velocity led by our algorithm are significantly smaller than those resulted from the existing approaches using the same testing data sets, demonstrating a remarkable improvement of 64.12% and 47.90%, respectively.

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Additional Information: Funding information: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61673322 and 61673326), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 20720190142), the Key Project of National Key R & D Project (No. 2017YFC1703303).
Uncontrolled Keywords: nonlinear scale factors, low-cost IMU, Inertial measurement unit (IMU) calibration
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
G500 Information Systems
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Rachel Branson
Date Deposited: 05 Jan 2022 15:56
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2022 16:00
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/48083

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