Sensor calibration and uncertainty budgets
A credible sensor must quantify systematic as well as statistical uncertainty.
$$u_c^2=\sum_i(\partial f/\partial x_i)^2u_i^2$$
Physical intuition
A credible sensor must quantify systematic as well as statistical uncertainty.
Deep dive: physical mechanism
Propagate calibration constants, offsets, environmental variables and estimator variance into a combined uncertainty.
What is measured experimentally?
Produce traceable confidence intervals and repeatability plots.
Assumptions, noise and limitations
Correlated errors require covariance terms, not only independent variance sums.
Research and simulation exercise
Construct an uncertainty budget for a magnetometer.
Connect the ideas
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