Performance of the Honeywell MEMS Demonstration IMU

Timothy Buck and Conrad E. Mueller

Abstract:	Honeywell has recently designed, built, and tested several microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) demonstration inertial measurement units (IMUs) to investigate their baseline performance and identify performance sensitivities of the Honeywell MEMS inertial technology, as well as to determine design improvements for enhanced performance of our next iteration MEMS IMU product. The demonstration IMU consists of three Honeywell MEMS gyroscopes as well as three Honeywell MEMS accelerometers configured to measure angular rate and linear acceleration in a body mounted strapdown mechanization. This paper presents an overview of this demonstration MEMS IMU in addition to the laboratory performance test results obtained to date. The next iteration Honeywell MEMS IMU product will also be discussed, along with its performance goals and availability schedule. A proposed ultra-tightly- coupled/packaged MEMS INS/GPS concept for the next generation of integrated navigation systems is presented, along with system performance predictions.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 2001 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 22 - 24, 2001 Westin Long Beach Hotel Long Beach, CA
Pages:	151 - 159
Cite this article:	Buck, Timothy, Mueller, Conrad E., "Performance of the Honeywell MEMS Demonstration IMU," Proceedings of the 2001 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, Long Beach, CA, January 2001, pp. 151-159.
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