Method for offset calibration of a yaw rate sensor signal of a yaw rate sensor, system and computer program
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsHanna Becker, Juergen Gut
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Abstract
A method for offset calibration of a rotation rate sensor signal of a rotation rate sensor. In a first step, an ascertainment is made that the rotation rate sensor is in an idle state. In a second step, after the first step, a filter parameter is determined as a function of the measured rotation rate sensor values, measured in the idle state, of the rotation rate sensor. In a third step, after the second step, a filtered measured rotation rate sensor value is determined with the aid of the filter parameter. An offset is determined with the aid of the filtered measured rotation rate sensor value.
Claims11
A rotation rate sensor comprising a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device and a processor configured to cause the rotation rate sensor to output sensor readings due to and representing effects of rotation states on the MEMS device of the rotation rate sensor, wherein:
- a correspondence of the output sensor readings to reactions of the MEMS device to the rotation states changes over time due to a continual self-calibration of the rotation rate sensor that changes an offset applied to signals produced as the reactions of the MEMS device to the rotation states;
- the continual self-calibration is performed by the rotation rate sensor using the processor to:
- in a first step, ascertain that the rotation rate sensor is in an idle state;
- and
- conditional upon that the rotation rate sensor has been determined in the first step to be in the idle state, update the offset by which the rotation rate sensor outputs the sensor readings in response to subsequent effects of the rotation states on the MEMS device, the update including, while the rotation rate sensor in in the ascertained idle state:
- in a second step, after the first step, determining a filter parameter as a function of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state of the rotation rate sensor;
- in a third step, applying the filter parameter determined in the second step to obtain a filtered version of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state;
- and
- determining an updated value of the offset from the filtered version of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state;
- and
- at least one of the following:
- (a) the determining of the filter parameter in the second step includes categorizing a degree of idleness of the rotation rate sensor during the idle state into one of a plurality of predefined idleness categories based on the signals produced by the MEMS device during the idle state and setting the filter parameter to a value that depends on the one of the plurality of predefined idleness categories into which the degree of idleness has been categorized;
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- (b) the applying of the filter parameter in the third step includes applying the filter parameter on an individual basis to a single one of the signals produced by the MEMS device during the idle state.
A rotation rate sensor comprising a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) device and a processor configured to cause the rotation rate sensor to output sensor readings due to and representing effects of rotation states on the MEMS device of the rotation rate sensor, wherein:
- a correspondence of the output sensor readings to reactions of the MEMS device to the rotation states changes over time due to a continual self-calibration of the rotation rate sensor that changes an offset applied to signals produced as the reactions of the MEMS device to the rotation states;
- the continual self-calibration is performed by the rotation rate sensor using the processor to:
- in a first step, ascertain that the rotation rate sensor is in an idle state;
- and
- conditional upon that the rotation rate sensor has been determined in the first step to be in the idle state, update the offset by which the rotation rate sensor outputs the sensor readings in response to subsequent effects of the rotation states on the MEMS device, the update including, while the rotation rate sensor in in the ascertained idle state:
- in a second step, after the first step, determining a filter parameter as a function of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state of the rotation rate sensor;
- in a third step, applying the filter parameter determined in the second step to obtain a filtered version of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state;
- and
- determining an updated value of the offset from the filtered version of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state;
- the filter parameter is determined in the second step as a function of a first intermediate parameter and of a second intermediate parameter;
- the first intermediate parameter is proportional to a reciprocal of a number of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state;
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- the second intermediate parameter is a function of a fluctuation of values of the signals produced by the MEMS device in the idle state.
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