TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and Their Applications, 5 cr
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Jussi Collin
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| TIE-52206 2017-01 | 3 - 4 |
Jussi Collin Jussi Parviainen |
Exercises and project work. |
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, the student can analyze inertial sensor requirements and their design parameters. Student can design inertial sensor applications, including inertial navigation, and understands the limits of consumer-grade sensors.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Sensor requirements, design parameters, basic principles of inertial sensor technology | optical gyroscopes | |
| 2. | Inertial navigation principles, coordinate frames | Tranformations between coordinate frames. | local level frame rotation |
| 3. | Self-contained sensors: accelerometers and gyroscopes. Magnetometers, barometric altimeters. Sensor errors and related inertial sensor terminology | 1/f noise, Allan variance | |
| 4. | Strapdown inertial navigation algorithms | sampling effects, coning motion | coning correction |
| 5. | Filtering inertial sensor signals, Kalman filter | Non-linear filtering, particle filters, orientation estimation | Map-matching, indexing |
| 6. | Applications: Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, orientation (UI), motion mode classification, games. | North finding with MEMS gyroscopes |
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Additional information | Examination material |
| Book | Principles of GNSS, inertial, and multisensor integrated navigation systems | P. D., Groves | ISBN-10: 1580532551 | No | ||
| Book | Strapdown Inertial Navigation Technology | D. H. Tittertton | 1 56347 693 2 | Second Edition | No | |
| Lecture slides | Lecture slides: TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and their Applications | No |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| SGN-11000 Signaalinkäsittelyn perusteet | Advisable |
Additional information about prerequisites
Students are expected to be familiar with basic matrix algebra.
Advisable background knowledge includes familiarity with sensor technologies (eg. ASE-3036 Microsensors) and positioning methods (eg. ELT-46006 Introduction to Satellite Positioning).
Correspondence of content
| Course | Corresponds course | Description |
| TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and Their Applications, 5 cr | TKT-2556 Basics of Inertial Navigation, 5 cr |