Measuring and testing – Speed – velocity – or acceleration – Angular rate using gyroscopic or coriolis effect
Patent
1997-02-18
1998-06-09
Williams, Hezron E.
Measuring and testing
Speed, velocity, or acceleration
Angular rate using gyroscopic or coriolis effect
7350412, G01C 1900
Patent
active
057637806
ABSTRACT:
The invention is a vibratory rotation sensor comprising a resonator and a resonator housing and a method for controlling and reading out the sensor utilizing multiplex electronics. The resonator is a rotationally-symmetric thin-walled object that can be made to vibrate in a plurality of standing-wave modes. One or more electrodes are attached to a surface of the resonator and connect to a single output port The housing has a plurality of attached electrodes in close proximity to the resonator electrodes. The method for controlling and reading out the vibratory rotation sensor includes applying driving voltages to the housing electrodes and determining the parameters of the standing waves by performing operations on the resonator signal that emerges from the resonator output port. A driving voltage may include either an excitation voltage or a forcing voltage or both. An excitation voltage has essentially no effect on the resonator dynamics but carries information pertaining to the standing-wave parameters when it arrives at the resonator output port. A forcing voltage causes forces to be applied to the resonator and thereby affects the dynamics of the resonator and the standing-wave parameters. The driving voltages applied to the housing electrodes are brought together into a single resonator signal as a result of being transmitted through the housing-electrode-resonator-electrode capacitances to the resonator output port. In order to extract the standing-wave parameters, the excitation and forcing voltages are designed to be separable by appropriate operations performed on the resonator signal.
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Darling J. Scott
Matthews Anthony
Varty Guy Thomas
Litton Systems Inc.
Malm Robert E.
Moller Richard A.
Williams Hezron E.
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