Acceleration sensors

Abstract

Acceleration relating to motion is an important section of kinematic quantities: position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk. Each one of these quantities has a linear relationship with the neighboring ones. That is, all the kinematic quantities can be derived from a single quantity. For example, acceleration can be obtained by differentiating the corresponding velocity or by integrating the jerk. Likewise, velocity can be obtained by differentiating the position or by integrating the acceleration. In practice, only integration is widely used since it provides better noise characteristics and attenuation.