Utilising accelerometer and gyroscope in smartphone to detect incidents on a test track for cars

Abstract: Every smartphone today includes an accelerometer. An accelerometer works by detecting acceleration affecting the device, meaning it can be used to identify incidents such as collisions at a relatively high speed where large spikes of acceleration often occur.A gyroscope on the other hand is not as common as the accelerometer but it does exists in most newer phones. Gyroscopes can detect rotations around an arbitrary axis and as such can be used to detect critical rotations.This thesis work will present an algorithm for utilising the accelerometer and gyroscope in a smartphone to detect incidents occurring on a test track for cars.