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Integration of MEMS Inertial and Pressure Sensors for Vertical Trajectory Determination

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This paper investigates the integration of a MEMS barometric pressure sensor with the MEMS-IMU for vertical position/velocity tracking without the GPS that has applications in sports and proposes a cascaded two-step Kalman filter.
Abstract
Integration of a low-cost global positioning system (GPS) with a microelectromechanical system-based inertial measurement unit (MEMS-IMU) is a widely used method that takes advantage of the individual superiority of each system to get a more accurate and robust navigation performance. However, because of poor observations as well as multipath effects, the GPS has low accuracy in the vertical direction. As a result, the navigation accuracy even in an integrated GPS/MEMS-IMU system is more challenged in the vertical direction than the horizontal direction. To overcome this problem, this paper investigates the integration of a MEMS barometric pressure sensor with the MEMS-IMU for vertical position/velocity tracking without the GPS that has applications in sports. A cascaded two-step Kalman filter consisting of separate orientation and position/velocity subsystems is proposed for this integration. Slow human movements in addition to more rapid sport activities such as vertical and step-down jumps can be tracked using the proposed algorithm. The height-tracking performance is benchmarked against a reference camera-based motion-tracking system and an error analysis is performed. The experimental results show that the vertical trajectory tracking error is less than 28.1 cm. For the determination of jump vertical height/drop, the proposed algorithm has an error of less than 5.8 cm.

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