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A Novel Adaptive Kalman Filtering Approach to Human Motion Tracking With Magnetic-Inertial Sensors

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This article presents an adaptive Kalman filtering approach to estimate the orientation of human body segments by using magnetic-inertial measurement units (MIMUs) with three-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. In order… Click to show full abstract

This article presents an adaptive Kalman filtering approach to estimate the orientation of human body segments by using magnetic-inertial measurement units (MIMUs) with three-axis gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. In order to mitigate the negative impact of the external accelerations and ferromagnetic disturbances, the disturbances are modeled by first-order Gauss–Markov processes, and two parallel adaptive Kalman filters containing disturbance models are implemented to eliminate the disturbances. An adaptive factor is introduced to adjust the process noise covariance matrix to compensate for modeling errors induced by unmodeled gyroscope biases and the erroneous process noise covariance matrices. Furthermore, the outliers are checked and discarded by hypothesis tests on the innovation, and the measurement is rejected when the innovation exceeds a given confidence interval. Then, the estimated gravity acceleration and geomagnetic field are used to calculate the orientation quaternion using triaxial attitude determination algorithm. Finally, experiments under different motion scenarios are carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, and the performance of the proposed method is discussed in comparison with existing ones. A forward kinematics three-dimensional (3-D) human motion reconstruction method is proposed to drive the human skeleton model to reproduce human motion with a visual interface based on ROS platform.

Keywords: human motion; motion; filtering approach; kalman filtering; adaptive kalman

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Year Published: 2020

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