Inertial measurement method is widely used in attitude determination of lowcost civil MUH(Mini Unmanned Helicopter).But the dirft of gyroscope and the kinematic acceleration affect the accuracy of estimation.This paper designed a Kalman filter based on quaternion.According to the gyroscope and accelerometer signal,fusion the attitude of MUH.And designed adaptive covariance matrix of measurement noise to improve the fusion accuracy.Get stable and highaccuracy attitude information for stability augmentation system. Experiment data shows that the method can effectively solve the problem of attitude determination of MUH.