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Toward Inertial-Navigation-on-Chip

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This chapter gives a brief introduction to inertial navigation systems and reviews the development of gyroscopes for inertial measurement and inertial navigation. Particularly, MEMS gyroscopes have received great success in personal electronics applications for self-sustained motion tracking due to their small size and low cost. However, MEMS gyroscopes with robust higher performance that are suitable for emerging applications like health informatics, robotics, industrial guidance, and indoor navigation are still unavailable with current technology, which defines the motivation and purpose of this thesis.

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Wen, H. (2019). Introduction. In: Toward Inertial-Navigation-on-Chip. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25470-4_1

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