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What is ZUPT and When Do I Use It?

Written by Luke Wilson | Aug 20, 2020 3:25:12 PM

Purpose: To understand which cases ZUPT should be ON and which case ZUPT should be OFF.

Last Updated: June 2020

ZUPT - or Zero Update Position and Timing, is used to mitigate gyroscope bias drift and in turn mitigate heading drift in a GPS-Denied environment. It should be enabled when the user wants to reduce its accumulated orientation and position errors once a carrier object stops. If a completely motionless state is not achievable, then the user should disable the ZUPT option.

Important Note: ZUPT can only be used on a fixed axis land vehicle. By default, it should then be off for any other type of vehicle.