A vehicle navigation system includes an external source sensor onboard a vehicle system that determines headings of the vehicle system. The external source sensor determines the headings using signals received from an off-board, external system. The navigation system also includes a magnetic sensor onboard the vehicle system that measures magnetic fields along different axes at different times. One or more processors determine a combination of the magnetic fields, determine a position translation and/or a magnitude scaling of the combination of the magnetic fields, and modify at least one of the headings based on the position translation and/or the magnitude scaling.

A vehicle navigation system includes an external source sensor onboard a vehicle system that determines headings of the vehicle system. The external source sensor determines the headings using signals received from an off-board, external system. The navigation system also includes a magnetic sensor onboard the vehicle system that measures magnetic fields along different axes at different times. One or more processors determine a combination of the magnetic fields, determine a position translation and/or a magnitude scaling of the combination of the magnetic fields, and modify at least one of the headings based on the position translation and/or the magnitude scaling.

A micromechanical component for a rotation rate sensor. The micromechanical component includes two rotor masses, mirror symmetrical with respect to a first plane of symmetry aligned perpendicularly to a substrate surface and passing through the center of the two rotor masses, which may be set in rotational vibrating motion about rotational axes aligned perpendicularly to the substrate surface, and four seismic masses, mirror symmetrical with respect to the first plane of symmetry, deflectable in parallel to the first plane of symmetry using the two rotor masses set in their respective rotational vibrating motion. The first rotor mass and a first pair of the four seismic masses connected thereto are mirror symmetrical to the second rotor mass and to a second pair of the four seismic masses connected thereto with respect to a second plane of symmetry aligned perpendicularly to the substrate surface and to the first plane of symmetry.

A micromechanical component for a rotation rate sensor. The micromechanical component includes two rotor masses, mirror symmetrical with respect to a first plane of symmetry aligned perpendicularly to a substrate surface and passing through the center of the two rotor masses, which may be set in rotational vibrating motion about rotational axes aligned perpendicularly to the substrate surface, and four seismic masses, mirror symmetrical with respect to the first plane of symmetry, deflectable in parallel to the first plane of symmetry using the two rotor masses set in their respective rotational vibrating motion. The first rotor mass and a first pair of the four seismic masses connected thereto are mirror symmetrical to the second rotor mass and to a second pair of the four seismic masses connected thereto with respect to a second plane of symmetry aligned perpendicularly to the substrate surface and to the first plane of symmetry.

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and a processor configured to compare geomagnetic data of the geomagnetic sensor and gyro data of the gyro sensor and correct the gyro data, determine a first value based on a principal component analysis (PCA) of acceleration data of the acceleration sensor, and determine a second value based on a PCA of the gyro data, and estimate a moving direction of the electronic apparatus based on the first value and the second value.

A method of fully autonomous geometric calibration for linear-array remote sensing satellite (LARSS) based on the joint observation for stars and earth by satellite, with the support of satellite's high maneuverability is proposed. This invention realizes the full-link processing from data acquisition to internal and external calibration. Based on the ultra-high attitude stability and agile maneuverability, this invention designs a joint observation mode for the star and the earth, which is suitable for autonomous geometric calibration. With the joint observations, this invention achieves the external calibration through the star observations acquired in the solar shadow area, and achieves the internal calibration through the ground overlapping images acquired in the solar illumination area. Therefore, the high-precision geometric imaging model of the LARSS would be restored by the method, under the condition without using the ground calibration sites.

Various embodiments are directed to improvements in the design of optical and/or motion sensors and the architecture and implementation of systems that contain such sensors to enable the physical size of such sensors and systems to be dramatically reduced and to enable the implementation of such systems to be dramatically simplified. This has applications in the design and manufacture of electronic devices containing such sensors, with direct impacts to many market segments, including, without limitation, augmented reality, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, security, and the like.

An inertial sensor device includes a first interface, a second sensor, a second interface, a host interface, and a processing circuit. The first interface is an interface for a first sensor configured to detect a first physical quantity in a first detection axis, a second physical quantity in a second detection axis, and a third physical quantity in a third detection axis. The second sensor is configured to detect the physical quantity in the third detection axis as a high-accuracy third physical quantity with a higher accuracy than the first sensor. The processing circuit is configured to output the first physical quantity and the second physical quantity to a host via the host interface, and output the high-accuracy third physical quantity instead of the third physical quantity to the host via the host interface.

The disclosure provides a calibration system, a calibration method, and a calibration device. The calibration method for obtaining a transformation of coordinate systems between a vision sensor and a depth sensor includes the following steps. (a) A first coordinate group of four endpoints of a calibration board in a world coordinate system is created. (b) An image of the calibration board is obtained by the vision sensor, and a second coordinate group of the four endpoints of the calibration board in a two-dimensional coordinate system is created. (c) A third coordinate group of the four endpoints of the calibration board in a three-dimensional coordinate system is created according to the first and second coordinate groups. (d) The third coordinate group is transformed to a fourth coordinate group corresponding to the depth sensor to obtain the transformation of the coordinate systems according to at least three target scanning spots.

A method of monitoring at least first and second inertial measurement units, the first inertial measurement unit and the second inertial measurement unit being connected to the same electronic processor circuit and being arranged to determine both a specific force vector in an accelerometer measurement reference frame and also rotation data concerning turning of the accelerometer measurement reference frame relative to an inertial reference frame; the electronic processor circuit performs the steps of projecting the specific force vectors into an inertial reference frame by using the rotation data; comparing the two specific force vectors as projected into said reference frame with each other in order to determine a difference between them; and monitoring variation in this difference over time.