Performance of High-Accuracy Ring-laser Gyros for Cruise Applications

Ludd A. Trozpek, Robert G. Christiansen

Abstract:	Rockwell International Corporation has built 38-cm square dithered ring-laser gyros that perform ten percent better than the Advanced Cruise Missile high-accuracy velocity and position specification. These gyros also meet the high accuracy requirements for the Advanced Tactical Fighter for velocity error and come within twenty percent of meeting the position requirement assuming a 3-minute gyro compass alignment. This projected system performance was achieved by minimizing bias white noise in the gyro design and fabrication and by modeling the very repeatable temperature sensitivity.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1987) June 23 - 25, 1987 Dayton, Ohio
Pages:	51 - 55
Cite this article:	Trozpek, Ludd A., Christiansen, Robert G., "Performance of High-Accuracy Ring-laser Gyros for Cruise Applications," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1987), Dayton, Ohio, June 1987, pp. 51-55.
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