SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION OF LINEAR AND CORIOLIS ACCELERATIONS ON A MODE-MATCHED MEMS GYROSCOPE

Sonmezoglu S., Gavcar H. D., AZGIN K., Alper S. E., AKIN T.

27th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), San-Francisco, Kostarika, 26 - 30 Ocak 2014, ss.32-35 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: San-Francisco
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Kostarika
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.32-35
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents a novel "in operation acceleration sensing and compensation method" for a single-mass mode-matched MEMS gyroscope. In this method, the amplitudes of the sustained residual quadrature signals on the differential sense-mode electrodes are compared to measure the linear acceleration acting on the sense-axis of the gyroscope. By measuring the acceleration acting along the sense-axis, the g-sensitivity of the gyroscope output to these accelerations is mitigated without using a dedicated accelerometer. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the g-sensitivity of the studied gyroscope is substantially reduced from 1.08 degrees/s/g to 0.04 degrees/s/g, and the effect of the linear acceleration on the gyroscope output is highly-suppressed (by 96%) with the use of the compensation method proposed in this work.