Effect of Strapdown Integration Order and Sampling Rate on IMU-Based Attitude Estimation Accuracy

Abstract

This paper deals with the strapdown integration of attitude estimation Kalman filter (KF) based on inertial measurement unit (IMU) signals. In many low-cost wearable IMU applications, a first-order is selected for strapdown integration, which may degrade attitude estimation performance in high-speed angular motions. The purpose of this research is to provide insights into the effect of the strapdown integration order and sampling rate on the attitude estimation accuracy for low-cost IMU applications. Experimental results showed that the effect of integration order was small when the angular velocity was low and the sampling rate was large. However, as the angular velocity increased and the sampling rate decreased, the effect of integration order increased, i.e., obviously, the third-order KF resulted in better estimations than the first-order KF. When comparing the case where both transient matrix and process noise covariance matrix are applied to the corresponding order and the case where only the transient matrix is applied to the corresponding order but the process noise covariance matrix for the first-order is still used, both cases had almost equivalent estimation accuracy. However, in terms of the calculation cost, the latter case was more economical than the former, particularly for the third-order KF (i.e., the ratio of the former to the latter is 1.22 to 1).

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