Title
A Calibration Method for the Errors of Ring Laser Gyro in Rate-Biased Mode.
Abstract
Ring laser gyro (RLG) can work in mechanically dithered mode or rate-biased mode according to the working state of the inertial navigation system (INS). It can change from one mode to the other by receiving outer instructions. To evaluate the performance of RLG in rate-biased mode, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) based on RLG is installed on a dual-axis turntable, the turntable offers a constant angular velocity to the RLGs, in that way RLG can work in the rate-biased mode. A calibration method is proposed to calibrate the scale factor error, misalignments and constant bias of RLG in rate-biased mode, experiment results show that the differences of scale factor of the three gyros in two modes are 9 ppm, 7 ppm and 3.5 ppm, the constant biases of the three RLGs in rate-biased mode are also different from that in mechanically dithered mode with the difference of 0.017 degrees/h, 0.011 degrees/h and 0.020 degrees/h, the input axis misalignment angle of RLGs in different modes also changed. What is more, a calculation method of angle random walk (ARW) of RLG in rate-biased mode is also presented. Experimental results show that the ARW of the RLG in rate-biased mode is about one third of that in mechanically dithered.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19214754
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
gyroscopes,calibration,ring laser gyroscopes,angle random walk
Scale factor,Inertial navigation system,Gyroscope,Random walk,Optics,Electronic engineering,Constant angular velocity,Ring laser gyroscope,Inertial measurement unit,Engineering,Calibration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
21
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zengjun Liu162.02
lei wang261.37
Kui Li301.01
Jingxuan Ban400.34
Meng Wang53094167.38