Attitude estimation using accelerometers with constrained external acceleration

An attitude algorithm from output vector of accelerometer was proposed with the assumption that the direction of external acceleration is precisely localized or relatively localized on a certain plane. Simulation and experimental results verify that the estimation performance of the proposed method is better than that of the conventional method.

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