Simultaneous Calibration for MEMS Gyroscopes of the Rocket IMU

Abstract:

MEMS (Microelectromechanical System), as an advanced sensor technology, is low power, low cost, and small size. Gyroscope sensor produced with microelectromechanical technology is an angular rate sensor. IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) sensor for rocket should have a very wide range of measurements. At the beginning of the motion, the rocket accelereation is very high, for which the rocket IMU requires a multisensor with different sensitivity. This paper presents the design of the rocket IMU and its calibration method for all MEMS gyroscopes. Calibration for each sensor is necessary including its varying characteristics. The calibration of the gyroscope sensors use three-axis motion simulator model ST 3176 with resolutions 0.00001 for all axes. Simultaneous calibration was mutually applied which require a short calibration time. The results show that root mean square errors (RMSE) of the calibrated gyroscope for all axes are under 2.5 %. Therefore, that the calibrated gyroscope can be used in the proposed real application.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 896)
• Pages: 656-659
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.896.656
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Wahyudi Wahyudi*, Adhi Susanto, Wahyu Widada, Sasongko P. Hadi
• Keywords: Gyroscope, Rocket IMU, Sensor, Simultaneous Calibration

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