1. Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Bulk Micromachined Inertial Measurement Unit.
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Honglong Chang, Qiang Shen, Zhiguang Zhou, Jianbing Xie, Qinghua Jiang, and Weizheng Yuan
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MEASURING instruments , *MICROELECTROMECHANICAL systems , *ACCELEROMETER design & construction , *GYROSCOPES , *SILICON , *MICROMACHINING , *INTERFACE circuits , *DETECTORS , *VISCOSITY ,DESIGN & construction - Abstract
A bulk micromachined inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is presented in this paper. Three single-axis accelerometers and three single-axis gyroscopes were simultaneously fabricated on a silicon wafer using a bulk micromachining process; the wafer is smaller than one square centimeter. In particular, a global area optimization method based on the relationship between the sensitivity and layout area was proposed to determine the layout configuration of the six sensors. The scale factors of the X/Y-axis accelerometer and Z-axis accelerometer are about 213.3 mV/g and 226.9 mV/g, respectively. The scale factors of the X/Y-axis gyroscope and Z-axis gyroscope are about 2.2 mV/°/s and 10.8 mV/°/s, respectively. The bias stability of the X/Y-axis gyroscope and the Z-axis gyroscope are about 2135 deg/h and 80 deg/h, respectively. Finally, the resolutions of X/Yaxis accelerometers, Z-axis accelerometers, X/Y-axis gyroscopes, and Z-axis gyroscopes are 0.0012 g/ √Hz , 0.0011 g/ √Hz , 0.314 ° /s/ √Hz , and 0.008 ° /s/ √Hz , respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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