571 results about "Vertical acceleration" patented technology

A control system for a resilient support mechanism such as a suspension mechanism of a wheeled vehicle including a damper disposed between an unsprung mass member and a sprung mass member of the vehicle, wherein a damping coefficient of the damper is divided into a linear portion and a nonlinear portion, and wherein the nonlinear portion of the damping coefficient is defined as a control input u and applied with a frequency weight Wu(s), while a vertical velocity of the sprung mass member, a relative velocity of the sprung mass member to the unsprung mass member and a vertical acceleration of the sprung mass member are defined as an evaluation output zp and applied with a frequency weight Ws(s). In the control system, a nonlinear Hinfin control theory is applied to a generalized plant to obtain a positive definite symmetric solution P and to calculate a target damping force based on the positive definite symmetric solution P and a state amount such as the vertical velocity of the sprung mass member, a relative displacement of the sprung mass member to the unsprung mass member or the like.

In a pedometer device for detecting and counting steps of a user on foot, an accelerometer sensor detects a vertical acceleration generated during the step. A processing unit, connected to the accelerometer sensor, processes an acceleration signal relating to the acceleration in order to detect the occurrence of a step, and in particular compares the acceleration signal with a first reference threshold. The processing unit automatically adapts the first reference threshold as a function of the acceleration signal. In particular, the processing unit modifies the first reference threshold as a function of an envelope of the amplitude of the acceleration signal.

The invention discloses a method for determining the driving state of a vehicle based on an acceleration sensor. The method comprises the following steps of: A, acquiring the longitudinal acceleration, the transverse acceleration and the vertical acceleration of an automobile by using a three-axial acceleration sensor; B, calculating a conversion matrix of an automobile coordinate system and an acceleration sensor coordinate system, acquiring the initial attitude of the acceleration sensor, namely the initial angle between the acceleration sensor and the automobile, and performing zero bias filtering processing on the acquired accelerations so as to acquire the acceleration value of the automobile coordinate system; and C, determining the driving state of the vehicle according to the acceleration values of a plurality of continuous automobile coordinate systems. In the method for determining the driving state of the vehicle based on the acceleration sensor, the original data is acquired by the acceleration sensor, and the driving state of the vehicle is determined by analyzing and processing three axial accelerations, so that the driving behaviors and the driving state of a driver are known, vehicle managers are assisted in normalizing the driving behaviors, dangerous driving behaviors are prevented, and driving safety is ensured.

A crash notification system (12) for an automotive vehicle (10) is used to communicate with a communication network (22) and ultimately to a response center (24). The system (12) within vehicle (10) includes an occupant sensor (30) that generates an occupant sensor status signal. A crash sensor (34) a vehicle identification number memory (48), or a vertical acceleration sensor (46) may also be used to provide information to the controller (14). The controller (14) generates a communication signal that corresponds to the occupant sensor status signal and the other information so that appropriate emergency personnel may be deployed.

The invention discloses an anti-falling protection device of an elevator. The device comprises a vertical acceleration sensor, a controller, a storage battery, fixed rails, fixing rods and retractable motors, wherein the vertical acceleration sensor is disposed on the top of an elevator car, the fixed rails are arranged on the two sides of an elevator shaft, the fixing rods and the retractable motors are arranged on the side walls of the elevator car, and the fixed rails are evenly provided with multiple fixing holes. The controller is connected with the vertical acceleration sensor, the storage battery and the retractable motors, each retractable motor is connected with one end of the corresponding fixing rod, and the other end of each fixing rod corresponds to the corresponding fixing hole in the corresponding fixed rail in position. The two sides of the elevator shaft are provided with the fixed rails and the fixing rods, so that falling of the elevator can be prevented to some extent when the elevator is overweight and descends. Meanwhile, the vertical acceleration sensor is arranged so as to precisely detect the descending speed and the ascending speed of the elevator, operation of the elevator is better detected, operation safety of the elevator is increased, and the anti-falling protection device is worth popularization.

A rough road detection system for a vehicle comprises a first acceleration sensor that measures vertical acceleration of a component of the vehicle. An adaptive acceleration limits module determines a first acceleration limit based upon a speed of the vehicle. A limit comparison module generates a rough road signal based on a comparison of the first acceleration limit from the adaptive acceleration limits module and the measured acceleration from the first acceleration sensor.

A logic for detecting vehicle rollover includes a first main activation path activated by vehicle lateral acceleration and a second main activation path activated by vehicle vertical acceleration. The logic also includes a first additional activation path activated by vehicle roll angle, a second additional activation path activated by vehicle roll rate, and a third additional activation path activated by vehicle longitudinal acceleration. Activation of each path results from the sensor specific for that path when the output exceeds a threshold value. Logic activation occurs when at least one main activation path and at least one additional activation path are activated.

An electronically-controlled suspension apparatus includes a first sensing device for detecting a vertical acceleration of a vehicle body; a second sensing device for detecting vertical movements of a vehicle body relative to a wheel axle; and a controller for obtaining a vertical speed of the vehicle body by using the vertical acceleration detected by the first sensing device, obtaining a damper speed of a variable damper by using the vertical movements detected by the second sensing device, calculating a target damping force by using the vertical speed of the vehicle body and the damper speed, and determining a control command value by using the target damping force. The control command value is transmitted from the controller to the actuator of the variable damper to change damping force characteristics of the variable damper.

A Kalman filter in a roll angle estimation device estimates a roll angle of a vehicle body, a vehicle speed, a roll angular velocity sensor offset, a yaw angular velocity sensor offset, and a vertical acceleration sensor offset on the basis of detected values of a roll angular velocity sensor, a yaw angular velocity sensor, a vertical acceleration sensor, a longitudinal acceleration sensor, a lateral acceleration sensor, and a rear-wheel speed sensor, and also on the basis of estimated values of the roll angle, the vehicle speed, the roll angular velocity sensor offset, the yaw angular velocity sensor offset, and the vertical acceleration sensor offset obtained in a previous estimation operation.

The invention discloses a method and a device for automatic landing leveling control of a small unmanned aerial vehicle. The landing leveling control device consists of a pitch attitude control circuit and an airspeed control circuit. Aiming at the problem that unmanned air vehicle with a simple sensor can not acquire vertical speed information and vertical acceleration speed information with required precision, the method and the device make full use of an available sensor information and calculate an expected pitch attitude g(t), an expected pitch attitude g'(t) containing correction, an expected airspeed vg(t), an expected airspeed vg'(t) containing correction, elevator control command delta Z(t), an engine chock valve command delta(t) and so on to realize control procedures in the control circuits and achieve the aim of automatic landing leveling control. Meanwhile, remote control operating personnel can operate an operating lever of an elevator and an operating lever of a chock valve in a leveling process according practical situation and carry out correction control of automatic leveling, thereby effectively improves the anti-interference capacity and landing precision of an airplane.

A method of calculating a step length of a user, which comprises the steps: input a leg length of the user; obtain a vertical acceleration when the user is walking, wherein the vertical acceleration is sensed by an accelerometer and then removed the effect of gravity; do double integral on the vertical acceleration to obtain a vertical displacement for one step of the user; calculate a step length according to the vertical displacement and the leg length by applying Pythagorean theorem.

A system for measuring gait kinematics information during exercise of a subject comprising a fixing member adapted for fixing onto the trunk of the body of the subject; an acceleration sensor attached to the fixing member for sensing the vertical acceleration of the trunk of the body of the subject; and a microprocessor coupled to the acceleration sensor adapted to receive the vertical acceleration data from the acceleration sensor, and to compute and derive the speed and distance traversed by the subject, and to communicate the speed and distance information. In the preferred embodiment, a heart-rate monitoring device is also provided.

A method and apparatus for recognizing a gait motion are provided. The apparatus may set a gait motion recognition period based on measured right and left hip joint angle information, may input, to a trained neural network, right and left hip joint angle information and vertical acceleration information measured during the gait motion recognition period, and may recognize a gait motion.