Can ASM330LHH eliminate most or all false detections?

[JamesE]

Hello experts,

I'm trying to determine if the ASM330LHH IMU can eliminate false positives by itself or if the MCU will need to address them. I've searched the forum for this topic and didn't find anything specifically related to this device. Apologies if I missed any.

I did read through the ASM330LHH: Automotive inertial module digital 3D accelerometer and digital 3D gyroscope app note (AN5296). It is a helpful document, but I didn't find much about how to prevent or handle false detections.

Page 30 includes the following sentence that indicates that false detections can be avoided by using a longer duration.

The FF_DUR[5:0] field of the FREE_FALL / WAKE_UP_DUR registers is configured like this to ignore events that are shorter than 6/ODR_XL = 6/412 Hz ~= 15 msec in order to avoid false detections.

In my application, I'm more concerned about detecting certain impacts rather than free fall scenarios. Thus, I would assume setting an accelerometer magnitude threshold and a duration threshold (similar to what's illustrated in Figure 13) would be enough to avoid false detections.

Is my understanding correct? Thanks for your help in advance.

James

[Eleon BORLINI · Accepted solution]

Hi @JamesE​ ,

yes, your understanding is in principle correct.

If you want to discriminate a specific signal (with a specific amplitude and a specific duration), that is different from all the other signals and cannot be confused with them, you can use the free fall, or the wake up features (asm330lhh_free_fall.c / asm330lhh_wake_up.c).

If otherwise the amplitude and the duration are not enough to discriminate, you might switch to devices with embedded Machine Learning Core (MLC), such as the ISM330DHCX: MLC allows the user to select among more complex features than duration and threshold, since you can use mean, variance, RMS, etc to build a decision tree that can classify your signal.

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-Eleon

[JamesE]

Hi @Eleon BORLINI​,

Thanks for your detailed reply. Your feedback has answered my initial questions, and hopefully our future testing will clearly demonstrate that amplitude/duration is adequate or not enough for our application.

Have a great weekend.

James