Design and Implementation of a 3-Dimensional Attitudes Estimator Device using Low Cost Accelerometer & Gyroscope with Microcontroller IDE

• Main Authors: M. RAJA, Ugur GUVEN, Kartikay SINGH
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” - INCAS 2020-06-01
• Series: INCAS Bulletin
• Subjects: quaternions; inertial measurement units (imu); gyroscope; accelerometers
• Online Access: https://bulletin.incas.ro/files/raja-m__guven-u__singh-k__vol_12_iss_2.pdf

Navigation and guidance systems for most automobile as well as aerospace applications require a coupled chip setup known as Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) which, depending on the degree of freedoms, contains a Gyroscope (for maintaining orientation and angular velocity), Accelerometers (to determine acceleration in the respective direction) and a Magnetometer (to determine the respective magnetic fields). In the three-dimensional space, any required rotation analysis is limited to the coordinate systems and all subtended angles in either direction must be defined by a fixed axis to effectively estimate the stability and to define all the attitude estimates needed to compile different rotations and orientations. The Quaternions are mathematical notations used for defining rotations and orientation in three-dimensional space. The simplest terms Quaternions are impossible to visualize in a three-dimensional space; the first three terms will be identical to the coordinate system, but through Quaternions another vector quantity is added into the equations, which may in fact underline how we can account for all rotational quantities. The fundamental analysis of these components different applications for various fields is proposed.