Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibrating-mass gyroscope system
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Application No.: US15829549Application Date: 2017-12-01
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Publication No.: US10648811B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Alexander A. Trusov , Youngmin Albert Choi , David Dexter Lynch
- Applicant: Alexander A. Trusov , Youngmin Albert Choi , David Dexter Lynch
- Applicant Address: US VA Falls Church
- Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Falls Church
- Agency: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP
- Main IPC: G01C19/5726
- IPC: G01C19/5726 ; G01C25/00 ; G01C19/5755 ; G01C19/574 ; G01P15/18 ; G01P15/13

Abstract:
One embodiment includes a gyroscope system. The system includes a sensor system comprising a vibrating-mass and electrodes each arranged to provide one of a driving force and a force-rebalance to the vibrating-mass in each of three orthogonal axes. The system also includes a gyroscope controller that generates a drive signal provided to a first electrode of the electrodes to provide the driving force to facilitate an in-plane periodic oscillatory motion of the vibrating-mass along a first axis of the three orthogonal axes. The gyroscope controller also generates a force-rebalance signal provided to each of a second electrode and a third electrode of the plurality of electrodes associated with a respective second axis and a respective third axis of the three orthogonal axes to calculate a rotation of the gyroscope system about the respective second axis and the respective third axis of the three orthogonal axes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190170514A1 VIBRATING-MASS GYROSCOPE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-06-06
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