- journal_title：Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Contributor：Chin-Jen Lin ; Han-Pang Huang ; Chun-Chi Liu ; Hung-Chie Chiu
- Publisher：Seismological Society of America
- Date：2010-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- Identifier：10.1785/0120090123
- journal_abbrev：Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- issn：0037-1106
- volume：100
- issue：2
- firstpage：585
- section：Articles
Dynamic and permanent seismic displacements are important for seismologists and engineers and, in principle, can be derived from the double-time integral of translational acceleration. However, because translational accelerometers are sensitive not only to translational but also to rotational motions, it is not possible to recover with assurance the true displacement by direct double-time integration of acceleration without first applying corrections from separately recorded rotational motions. This paper applies an attitude equation from the navigational literature to obtain the time-dependent orientation of the accelerometer from colocated recordings of three-axis rotation rate and then applies an attitude-correction equation together with orientation and these rotational data to correct centrifugal and tilt-induced gravitational effects on accelerometers. Finally, we perform coordinate transformations to derive the dynamic motion in an inertially fixed (geographic) coordinates frame rather than in the body-attached coordinates in which they are recorded. To verify our algorithm, we attached a three-axis translational accelerometer and a three-axis rotation-rate sensor together to the end of a robot arm. By moving the robot arm simultaneously in translation and rotation, we find a good match between displacements calculated with our correction scheme and the actual robot-arm movements, as determined by the robot’s inputs and feedback system.