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3D Solid State Gyro
Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope".
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3D Solid State Gyro
GeorgeC,
Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope". I think what you really need is a tutorial on Google and Wikipedia. Everything else will follow from there. -- Thomas Borchert (EDDH) |
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"GeorgeC" wrote in message ... Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope". GeorgeC Short FOG info is at: http://www.nsd.es.northropgrumman.co...view/index.htm MEMS units: http://www.omniinstruments.co.uk/gyro/gyro.html Both are solid state units. FOG units will give lower drift, but are higher in price than the MEMS units. There are also other basic designs and most are tradeoffs between cost, environmental specs and performance. Google will give you many more hits. John Severyn @KLVK |
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Google for "ring laser gyro" and pick from the returns,
146,000 pages available. -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "GeorgeC" wrote in message ... | Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope". | | GeorgeC |
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In article v4Mbg.22377$ZW3.15074@dukeread04,
"Jim Macklin" wrote: Google for "ring laser gyro" and pick from the returns, 146,000 pages available. Yes, except keep clear that "ring laser gyros" and "fiber optic gyros", though they both use lasers and optics, and are truly wonderful examples of modern science and technology, are fundamentally different beasts. Ring laser gyros are the older technology, with Sperry and Honeywell as major players in the field at least at one time. I believe they are heavily used in military and airliner navigation systems, though I'm not fully up to date on this Fiber gyros (a k a fiber optic gyros or fiber laser gyros) are the newer technology, with Litton and Northrup Grumman among the major players, and are perhaps poised to take over from the ring laser gyro. Amazing to see what MEMS can do also. |
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They all depend on frequency phase shift, it is the
principle, not the medium that determines the function. With the light weight and low cost of a zero friction laser gyro system, it should be possible to build a triple redundant inertial navigation system, with GPS updating, for very little money. It would also provide for flight control and auto pilot and be economically viable because it could be used for automotive, marine [including even bass boats] as well as aviation. When you build millions of units, the cost becomes affordable. As long as aviation builds systems by the dozen, the cost will be way too high for general acceptance. -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "AES" wrote in message ... | In article v4Mbg.22377$ZW3.15074@dukeread04, | "Jim Macklin" wrote: | | Google for "ring laser gyro" and pick from the returns, | 146,000 pages available. | | | | Yes, except keep clear that "ring laser gyros" and "fiber optic gyros", | though they both use lasers and optics, and are truly wonderful examples | of modern science and technology, are fundamentally different beasts. | | Ring laser gyros are the older technology, with Sperry and Honeywell as | major players in the field at least at one time. I believe they are | heavily used in military and airliner navigation systems, though I'm not | fully up to date on this | | Fiber gyros (a k a fiber optic gyros or fiber laser gyros) are the newer | technology, with Litton and Northrup Grumman among the major players, | and are perhaps poised to take over from the ring laser gyro. | | Amazing to see what MEMS can do also. |
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Jim Macklin wrote
Google for "ring laser gyro" and pick from the returns, 146,000 pages available. How come I get the impression that he wants information about the small "hold in the palm of your hand" battery powered units that I saw for sale at Sun n Fun...about $1500. Bob Moore |
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"AES" wrote in message ... Yes, except keep clear that "ring laser gyros" and "fiber optic gyros", though they both use lasers and optics, and are truly wonderful examples of modern science and technology, are fundamentally different beasts. Ring laser gyros are the older technology, with Sperry and Honeywell as major players in the field at least at one time. I believe they are heavily used in military and airliner navigation systems, though I'm not fully up to date on this Fiber gyros (a k a fiber optic gyros or fiber laser gyros) are the newer technology, with Litton and Northrup Grumman among the major players, and are perhaps poised to take over from the ring laser gyro. Amazing to see what MEMS can do also. I would think that aviation is getting away from gyros in favor of ADAHRS. How about these? http://www.xbow.com/Products/product...ls.aspx?sid=30 |
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In article hhNbg.22391$ZW3.1565@dukeread04,
"Jim Macklin" wrote: They all depend on frequency phase shift, it is the principle, not the medium that determines the function. The ring in a ring laser gyro is an oscillating laser. The laser gain medium is inside the ring. The ring itself is lasing independently in the two opposite directions around the ring, so it's essentially two lasers. The measured output signal is a *frequency* (the "beat frequency" between these two lasers) and this beat frequency is (error and "lock-up" effects aside) directly proportional to the rotation rate of the gyro. The ring is a single loop ring: winding the ring around in multiple loops would do no good -- would not increase the sensitivity or scale factor of the device. The ring in a fiber optical gyro has laser light traveling through it, sent in from outside, but the ring is not itself a laser, and is not lasing. The laser gain medium -- indeed the entire laser in the system -- is outside the ring, and there is only one external laser in the system which generates the light going in both directions around the ring. The output signal is a (very small!!) phase shift (NOT a frequency shift) between the optical phase delay in the two directions around the ring, which is proportional to the rotation rate of the ring. The ring is wound with many, many loops, and the sensitivity or scale factor of the device goes up directly as the number of loops. So, a lot of similar physics in the two devices, but they're still distinctly different. |
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You could have put it a little kinder, but thanks.
On Sat, 20 May 2006 23:26:51 +0200, Thomas Borchert wrote: GeorgeC, Can you point me to a tutorial on "3D Solid State gyroscope". I think what you really need is a tutorial on Google and Wikipedia. Everything else will follow from there. GeorgeC |
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