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We present an algorithm to estimate the rotational motion of an event camera. In contrast to traditional cameras, which produce images at a fixed rate, event cameras have independent pixels that respond asynchronously to brightness changes, with microsecon ...

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

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In fusion plasmas, the strong magnetic field allows the fast gyro-motion to be systematically removed from the description of the dynamics, resulting in a considerable model simplification and gain of computational time. Nowadays, the gyrokinetic (GK) code ...

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An Approach for Observing and Modeling Errors in MEMS-Based Inertial Sensors Under Vehicle Dynamic

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This paper studies the error behavior of low-cost inertial sensors in dynamic conditions. After proposing a method for error observations per sensor (i.e., gyroscope or accelerometer) and axes, their properties are estimated via the methodology of generali ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Automatic Identification and Calibration of Stochastic Parameters in Inertial Sensors

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We present an algorithm for determining the nature of stochastic processes and their parameters based on the analysis of time series of inertial errors. The algorithm is suitable mainly (but not only) for situations where several stochastic processes are s ...

Wiley Periodicals, Inc2015

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Researchers have succeeded in partly restoring damaged vestibular functionality in several animal models. Recently, acute interventions have also been demonstrated in human patients. Our previous work on a vestibular implant for humans used predefined stim ...

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A Micro Aerial Vehicle with Precise Position and Attitude Sensors

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Romain Mabillard

This study shows the potential of navigation technologies in the field of position and orientation determination on a micro aerial vehicle (MAV), which weight does not exceed 5 kg. Although the MAV systems feature high flexibility and capability of flying ...

E Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung2014

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The integration of observations issued from a satellite-based system (GNSS) with an inertial navigation system (INS) is usually performed through a Bayesian filter such as the extended Kalman filter (EKF). The task of designing the navigation EKF is strong ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014