摘要:
One example includes a FOG assembly including a spool that includes a flattened portion corresponding to a flange comprising an axial center corresponding to a sensitive axis about which an associated FOG system is configured to measure rotation. The FOG assembly also includes a magnetic shield arranged as a capped concentric cover about the sensitive axis and coupled to the spool and the flange to create a toroidal cavity between the magnetic shield and the flange. A fiber coil is disposed within the toroidal cavity and coupled to the flange. The fiber coil includes an optical fiber which is counter-wound in first and second orientations. The fiber coil has an axial dimension along the sensitive axis that is less than or equal to approximately 160% of a radial width corresponding to a difference between an outer radius and an inner radius of the fiber coil.
摘要:
One example includes a fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) system that includes a fiber coil. The coil includes an optical fiber wound around a spool of a FOG. The optical fiber includes a first input and a second input. The system also includes an optical beam controller comprising an optical switch that provides a first optical beam to the first input and a second optical beam to the second input during a first switching state, and provides the first optical beam to the second input and the second optical beam to the first input during a second switching state. The system further includes a controller that mitigates bias error in determining rotation of the FOG based on comparing the first and second optical beams output from the FOG during the first and second switching states.
摘要:
System and method for measuring force-dependent gyroscopic sensitivity. A force-effect model of the effects of acceleration on the output of a gyro triad is determined. Rotation sequences are then devised to permit excitation and observation of force-effect model parameters in order to provide calibration information for these parameters. A state diagram containing the gyro triad force-effect model parameters is derived from the force-effect model, where moving from one position in the state diagram to another position indicates the gyro triad error which would occur in rotating the gyro triad according to a corresponding motion. Searching for all possible closed loop paths achievable through the state diagram, by a multiple-axes rate table with a specified number of rotations, to separate gyro triad error calibration from the accelerometer calibration. Closed loop paths having minimal lengths and exhibiting larger error sensitivity are chosen to perform error parameter calibration and reduce force-dependent gyroscopic sensitivity.
摘要:
The invention is a method and apparatus for determining the rotation of a medium through which a light beam propagates by modulating the light beam with a primary pseudorandom bit sequence consisting of a plurality of contiguous P subsequences. Each P subsequence consists of a start sequence of predetermined length followed by a sequence of trailing bits. The method comprises three steps. The first step consists of deriving a feedback bit from each generating sequence in a P subsequence in accordance with a specified rule where a generating sequence is any sequence of contiguous bits in the P subsequence having the same length as the start sequence. The bit that follows a generating sequence is called the trailing bit for that generating sequence. The second step of the method consists of determining a sequence of one or more modifier bits to be used in modifying the P subsequence. The third step of the method consists of modifying the P subsequence utilizing the one or more modifier bits.
摘要:
A closed-loop system for regulating a fiber optic gyroscope is configured so that the residual error of a so-called deadbeat system assumes a higher order function of frequency. The closed-loop gyro includes a rate controller within the feedback path. The rate controller receives the gyro output from the last loop transit corrected for d.c. offset and for nominal dither and outputs a gyro rate estimate. The rate controller includes a plurality of feedback integrators in cascaded relationship. In this way, the residual gyro error associated with inherent loop delay is elevated to a higher-order relationship to sensed gyro rate. As a result, a substantial reduction in residual error as a function of sensed gyro rate occurs throughout the range of operational gyro frequencies.
摘要:
A digital circuit for adapting the output of a closed-loop accelerometer to a utilization circuit where the cycle time of the rebalance loop of the accelerometer is unrelated to the cycle time of the utilization circuit. A register receives and stores a digital value representative of measured acceleration and a bank of serially-arranged divide-by-two counters accepts the output of the rebalance loop clock. A gate arrangement makes one-by-one correlations between the states of the register and the outputs of the divide-by-two counters. A trigger circuit receives the gate outputs, providing a pulse when triggered by a downgoing edge of a square wave output of the gate array. A counter receives the pulse stream and is gated, in turn, in accordance with the cycle time of the utilization circuit so that the accelerometer data employed therein is representative of the portion of the acceleration occurring during a cycle of the utilization circuit.
摘要:
A method for thermal modeling and updating of bias errors in inertial navigation instrument outputs relies upon piecewise cubic spline encoding of data. The temperature range of the thermal model is divided into contiguous intervals of equal length. Instrument bias-versus-temperature data is encoded on an interval-by-interval basis with all intervals normalized so that cubic polynomials of identical form may be fitted between boundary intervals defined by function values and slopes. Instrument bias error at a measured temperature is estimated in the field and an update point (bias, temperature) established. The particular interval is located and the thermal model is re-fit accordingly in the region of the relevant interval. The spline parameters are then adjusted to accommodate the estimated bias error thereby updating the instrument thermal model of bias.
摘要:
An amplifier topology for receiving signals output from a fiber optic rotation sensor and producing voltages that may be processed to determine the rotation rate includes a photodiode for receiving an optical signal and producing a corresponding electrical photodiode output signal. An ultra low noise and ultra low capacitance differential input stage is connected to receive the photodiode output signal. An operational amplifier having low noise and ultra-wide bandwidth is connected to the ultra low capacitance differential input stage to receive the output signal therefrom as a driving signal and to produce a low noise output signal. The differential input stage comprises a first amplifier circuit that includes a first transistor connected to the photodetector to act as a first buffer having low noise, low capacitance and unity gain. The first amplifier circuit also includes a second transistor configured as a first voltage follower connected between the output of the first buffer and the operational amplifier to isolate the output of the first buffer from parasitic capacitive loading from a biasing network. The differential input stage further comprises a second a second amplifier circuit that includes a third transistor having an input connected to a reference potential, the third transistor acting as a second buffer having low noise, low capacitance and unity gain. The second amplifier circuit also includes a fourth transistor configured as a second voltage follower connected between the output of the second buffer and the operational amplifier.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a Ring Laser Gyroscope Enhanced Resolution System comprising, in a preferred embodiment, a sampling frequency modulation phase-locked loop (or "chirp") which is used in combination with the fast filter. Enhanced resolution is achieved by using the fast filter (preferably a moving average digital filter) to gather optically integrated rate data and accumulate this data. During the data gathering process, the accumulated data is sampled at a rate set by a frequency modulated ("chirper") phase-locked loop in order to remove undesirable data due to aliasing effects upon the digital filter. In this manner, an enhanced resolution of the gyroscope angular measurement is achieved.
摘要:
Digitized heterodyne signals in a ring laser gyroscope are processed to determine the phase and acceleration of heterodyne signals at turnarounds in the angular motion of the frame of the ring laser. A hybrid analog/digital design that incorporates the necessary logic processes the turnaround data to produce a phase correction that can be added to the gyroscope count to correct phase errors that at each turnaround. Separation of high speed data processing from lower rate data simplifies the code and permits evaluation of turnaround correction performance. A fully digital system determines a phase distribution for the detected turnarounds and processes the phase distributions of the heterodyne signals for a multiplicity of turnarounds to determine an angle towards which the phase distributions are skewed and the amount of that skew. A phase correction is then calculated to compensate for turnaround-induced errors in measurements of phase differences between the two beams as a function of the skew angle and the amount of skew of the phase distribution.