Research Article

Rigid Body Inertia Estimation Using Extended Kalman and Savitzky-Golay Filters

Table 4

Inertia estimation process.

Model,  ,  
where : nominal inertia 
,  

Initialization

Kalman Gain

Update State

Propagation, where  


Calculate angular acceleration

Construct matrix and vector for the LLS,  
where ,  ,  

Estimate inertia (every 40 sec), where