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In this paper, we present two methods for calibration of acceleration sensors that are inexpensive, in-situ, require minimum user interaction and are targeted to a broad set of acceleration sensor applications and devices. We overcome the necessity of orthogonal axes alignment by extending existing calibration methods with a non-orthogonal axes model. Our non-orthogonal method can furthermore be used to enable automatic calibration for 1- or 2-axes accelerometers or realize a simultaneous mass-calibration of sensors with minimum effort. The influence of noise to the presented calibration methods is analysed.
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Krohn, A., Beigl, M., Decker, C., Kochendörfer, U., Robinson, P., Zimmer, T. (2005). Inexpensive and Automatic Calibration for Acceleration Sensors. In: Murakami, H., Nakashima, H., Tokuda, H., Yasumura, M. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing Systems. UCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3598. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11526858_19
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