Inexpensive Minature Gyroscope for Intelligent Control Systems

Fariborz Maseeh

Abstract:	Conventional inertial navigation systems have many potential uses beyond air- and spacecraft applications but are seldom found because of their high cost, large size or heavy weight. By dramatically lowering the cost, a miniature smart positioning and navigation system promises to be popular in industrial and medical applications as well as expanding the avionics markets, both commercial and military. The novel aspect of the miniature positioning system compared to conventional inertial navigation systems is the inclusion of silicon microsensors with on-chip functionality such as solid-state micromachined gyroscopes.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1993) June 21 - 23, 1993 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, MA
Pages:	617 - 622
Cite this article:	Maseeh, Fariborz, "Inexpensive Minature Gyroscope for Intelligent Control Systems," Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of The Institute of Navigation (1993), Cambridge, MA, June 1993, pp. 617-622.
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