Research Article

Attitude Estimation Using Kalman Filtering: External Acceleration Compensation Considerations

Table 1

(a) Test A: MSE () of Mode 1, Mode 3, Mode 4, and Mode 5 in detail. (b) Test A: maximum error () of Mode 1, Mode 3, Mode 4, and Mode 5 in detail.
(a)

Acc (m/s2)Mode 1Mode 3Mode 4Mode 5
pitch (deg2) roll (deg2) pitch (deg2) roll (deg2) pitch (deg2) roll (deg2) pitch (deg2) roll (deg2)

0.19.602.929.312.7199.4226.739.042.89
0.7524.773.2224.663.2092.56183.1022.922.82
1.529.793.5929.414.02113.20227.1328.792.86
2.536.844.8834.495.6044.94168.4333.824.03
Mean (sd)25.25 (10)3.65 (0.8)24.47 (9.4)3.88 (1.1)87.53 (25.7)151.35 (75.1)23.64 (9.3)3.15 (0.5)

(b)

Acc (m/s2)Mode 1Mode 3Mode 4Mode 5
pitch (deg) roll (deg) pitch (deg) roll (deg) pitch (deg) roll (deg) pitch (deg) roll (deg)

0.126.058.6126.058.6118.5210.1921.978.99
0.7527.937.7627.937.7620.8719.0222.976.56
1.529.166.8129.166.8123.7225.4422.455.74
2.529.7012.3029.7012.3016.4420.7423.699.35
Mean (sd)28.21 (1.4)8.87 (2.1)28.21 (1.4)8.87 (2.1)19.89 (2.7)18.85 (5.5)22.77 (0.6)7.66 (1.5)