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Inertial Sensors for Positioning and Navigation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) have become a key component of navigation and positioning systems for indoor and GNSS denied environments. Their uses range from high precision systems for aerospace or maritime applications, medium performance systems for land vehicles and indoor navigation, as well as the low performance consumer market for smart phones and games. The increasing spectrum of applications demanding a better balance between performance and cost, such as driverless vehicles, have encouraged innovations across INS hardware, error modeling, and fusion techniques.

This Special Issue aims to highlight these innovations and showcase the performance capabilities and emerging applications for INS. Topics include, but are not limited, to:

Accelerometers
High Performance Gyroscopes
MEMS Sensors
Advanced Sensor Characterization Techniques
Sensor Error Modeling and Online Calibration
Advanced Test and Evaluation
Sensor Fusion
Algorithms and Methods
Wearable sensors
Innovative applications

Prof. Dr. Allison Kealy
Prof. Dr. Günther Retscher
Prof. Dr. Gert F. Trommer
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • inertial sensors
  • navigation
  • positioning
  • gyroscopes
  • accelerometers
  • mems sensors
  • sensor fusion

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