This paper reports on the design and analysis of a novel thermal single-axis microelectromechanical gyroscope. The gyroscope consists of a heated, pressure driven liquid flowing in a microchannel and two temperature sensors that detect the temperature difference between the two opposite walls of the channel. When an external rotation is applied, the resulting Coriolis acceleration acting on the...

The paper put forward using BP neural network and Kalman filter to signal processing of MEMS inertial sensors. This paper uses Kalman filter value for information fusion of gyroscope and accelerometer, and the attitude angle is accurate. The state and observation equation of attitude angle measuring system with characteristic of BP neural network, and the design of the Kalman filter is simple a...

In pedestrian navigation systems, the position of a pedestrian is computed using an inertial navigation algorithm. In the algorithm, the zero velocity updating plays an important role, where zero velocity intervals are detected and the velocity error is reset. To use the zero velocity updating, it is necessary to detect zero velocity intervals reliably. A new zero detection algorithm is propose...

Optical tracking systems (OTS) can provide high position accuracy over a large workspace. However, the orientation from OTS is related to distance between markers, which contains errors when small or line-of-sight problems occur. The estimation with gyroscope complementary OTS-based orientation. In this article, an error-state Kalman filter (ESKF) proposed fuse them. Two experiments were perfor...

A theoretical model of the thermal phase noise in a square-wave modulated solid core photonic crystal fiber-optic gyroscope has been established, and then verified by measurements. The results demonstrate a good agreement between theory and experiment. The contribution of the thermal phase noise to the random walk coefficient of the gyroscope is derived. A fiber coil with 2.8 km length is used ...

A possible deviation from the precession of the Gravity Probe-B gyroscope predicted by general relativity is obtained in the nonsymmetric gravity theory. The time delay of radio signals emitted by spacecraft at planetary distances from the Sun, in nonsymmetric gravity theory is the same as in general relativity. A correction to the precession of the gyroscope would provide an experimental signa...

In this contribution, a systematic method for the design of openand closedloop controllers for vibratory MEMS gyroscopes based on so-called envelope models will be presented. The methodology will be exemplarily carried out for a gyroscope with electrostatic actuation and read-out elements. The specifically designed capacitive actuators of the gyroscope are capable of compensating the system’s i...

Conventional gyroscopes are equipped with a single-axis control input, limiting their performance. Although researchers have proposed control algorithms with dual-axis control inputs to improve gyroscope performance, most have verified the control algorithms through numerical simulations because they lacked practical devices with dual-axis control inputs. The aim of this study was to design a p...

MEMS (Micro-electro-mechanical Systems) refer to devices or systems integrated with electrical and mechanical components in the scale of microns. Due to its small size, low cost, low power consumption and high efficiency, MEMS technology has been widely used in many fields. In this paper, a novel comb-driven, differential capacitance sensing MEMS vibratory gyroscope based on glass-silicon-glass...

MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) gyroscopes have been widely applied to various fields, but MEMS gyroscope random drift has nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics. It has attracted much attention to model and compensate the random drift because it can improve the precision of inertial devices. This paper has proposed to use wavelet filtering to reduce noise in the original data of M...