Dual axis operation of a micromachined rate gyroscope
- BSAC, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
- Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Since micromachining technology has raised the prospect of fabricating high performance sensors without the associated high cost and large size, many researchers have investigated micromachined rate gyroscopes. The vast majority of research has focused on single input axis rate gyroscopes, but this paper presents work on a dual input axis micromachined rate gyroscope. The key to successful simultaneous dual axis operation is the quad symmetry of the circular oscillating rotor design. Untuned gyroscopes with mismatched modes yielded random walk as low as 10{degrees}/{radical}hour with cross sensitivity ranging from 6% to 16%. Mode frequency matching via electrostatic tuning allowed performance better than 2{degrees}/{radical}hour, but at the expense of excessive cross sensitivity.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 471382
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-97-0832C; CONF-970646-2; ON: DE97004641; TRN: 97:003073
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. international conference on solid-state sensors and actuators, Chicago, IL (United States), 16-19 Jun 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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