Evaluation of a low cost solid-state accelerometer as a distance measuring sensor for vehicle positioning system

Author

Liu, Hugh ; Pang, Grantham

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

440

Abstract

Describes an evaluation of a low cost, solid state accelerometer as a distance-measuring device. A Kalman filter was applied to reduce random noise existing in the sensor. The random bias drift of the accelerometer was found to be 2.5 mg. The accelerometer was moved back and forth eight times for a distance of 40 cm with an acceleration of 10 m/s² and the distance error accumulated was +1.55 cm. The bias drift rate due to temperature was 0.108 μg/s when the accelerometer was placed at room temperature. The performance shows that the device is suitable for short duration distance measurement and may act as a complementary sensor to the GPS during signal blockage or between periodical absolute position updates

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Kalman filters; accelerometers; automated highways; distance measurement; position control; random noise; road vehicles; distance error; distance measuring sensor; low cost solid-state accelerometer; periodical absolute position updates; random bias drift; random noise; short duration distance measurement; signal blockage; vehicle positioning system; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Costs; Global Positioning System; Inertial navigation; Intelligent sensors; Sensor systems; Solid state circuits; Temperature sensors; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4975-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.1999.821097

Filename

821097