Modern Inertial Technology: Navigation, Guidance, and Control

✍ Scribed by Anthony Lawrence (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-3
An Outline of Inertial Navigation....Pages 4-23
Gyro and Accelerometer Errors and Their Consequences....Pages 24-41
The Principles of Accelerometers....Pages 42-56
The Pendulous Accelerometer....Pages 57-71
Vibrating Beam Accelerometers....Pages 72-83
The Principles of Mechanical Gyroscopes....Pages 84-92
Single Degree of Freedom Gyroscopes....Pages 93-118
Two Degree of Freedom Gyroscopes....Pages 119-126
The Dynamically Tuned Gyroscope....Pages 127-147
Vibrating Gyroscopes....Pages 148-162
The Principles of Optical Rotation Sensing....Pages 163-181
The Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyro....Pages 182-198
The Ring Laser Gyro....Pages 199-215
Passive Resonant Gyros....Pages 216-229
Testing Inertial Sensors....Pages 230-250
Design Choices for Inertial Instruments....Pages 251-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-268

✦ Subjects

Automotive Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics