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Course Catalog 2013-2014

TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and their Applications, 5 cr

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Helena Leppäkoski, Jussi Collin

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment



 



 
 2 h/week
 2 h/week



 36 h/per



 
TIE-52206 2013-01 Tuesday 14 - 16, TB219

Requirements

Exam, exercises, and project work.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will understand how to use consumer-grade inertial sensors and build applications utilizing them and know the basics of sensor applications on modern smartphones.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Inertial navigation principles, coordinate frames, errors. Level plane 2-D dead reckoning navigation system.   Tranformations between coordinate frames.   
2. Self-contained sensors: accelerometers and gyroscopes. Magnetometers, barometric altimeters.     
3. Sensor errors, Allan variance.     
4. Sensor APIs on smartphones.     
5. Methods: Kalman filter, Least Squares for sensor calibration.     
6. Applications: Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, orientation (UI), motion mode classification, games.      

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

Final exam

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Principles of GNSS, inertial, and multisensor integrated navigation systems   P. D., Groves   ISBN-10: 1580532551       No    English  
Book   Strapdown Inertial Navigation Technology   D. H. Tittertton   1 56347 693 2     Second Edition   No    English  
Lecture slides   Lecture slides: TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and their Applications           Yes    English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
TIE-02200 Basic course on programming Advisable    
TIE-05200 Microprocessors 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, MAT-60606 Mathematics for Positioning).

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TIE-52206 Inertial Sensors and their Applications, 5 cr TKT-2556 Basics of Inertial Navigation, 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

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TIE-52206 2013-01   Lectures
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Contact teaching: 0 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 0 %  

Last modified28.03.2013