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12 November 1996 Closed-loop fiber optic gyros
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Abstract
Research and development of fiber optic gyros began in the mid 1 970s and focused on improving the gyro's sensitivity to rotation and reducing noise. Next, bias performance was addressed. By the early 1980s, fiber gyros were achieving bias errors of 0.01 O/ in a laboratory environment. Scale factor performance was initially addressed at McDonnell Douglasi in the late 1 970s by the use of a closed-loop fiber gyro which employed acousto-optic frequency shifters. Good performance was achieved but this approach was not productionized. In the mid 1980s, Thomson CSF developed a fiber gyro which used a double closed-loop technique employing a digital phase ramp and an electro-optic phase modulator2. Derivatives of this approach have been adopted by most gyro producers in the world. This technique has enabled fiber gyros to have high scale factor linearity and has significantly improved scale factor stability and repeatability. Today closed-loop fiber optic gyros using derivatives of this technique are in production for many tactical applications3 . These include tactical missiles, smart bombs, and attitude and heading reference systems (AHRS) and require gyro bias performance of 1 to 1 0 O/ and gyro scale factor performance of 1 00 to 1 000 ppm. Closed-loop fiber gyros using derivatives of this technique are presently in development for future inertial navigation systems4 (INS) which require bias performance in the 0.00 1 to 0.01 0/hr and scale factor performance in the 5 to 50 ppm range. This paper will examine how this double closed-loop, digital phase ramp technique functions. An error source unique to this type of closed-loop gyro, the deadband error, will be examined along with a technique for eliminating it.
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George A. Pavlath "Closed-loop fiber optic gyros", Proc. SPIE 2837, Fiber Optic Gyros: 20th Anniversary Conference, (12 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.258198
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KEYWORDS
Gyroscopes

Fiber optic gyroscopes

Phase shifts

Modulators

Servomechanisms

Modulation

Phase shift keying

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