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The main research topic deals with the development of MEMS Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes and related electronics to fulfil the requirements of high-end applications such as inertial navigation.
Unlike traditional MEMS rate gyroscopes (RGs), which measure rotational rate, rate-integrating gyroscopes (RIGs) are capable of direct measurement of the orientation angle, thus avoiding the need for numerical integration of the angular rate (and related integration of noise and offset drifts) in inertial navigation applications.
MEMS RIGs are based on a 2-DOF degenerate-mode micromachined structure whose mechanical behaviour is analogous to that of a Foucault pendulum: under the effect of an external rotation, the free precession of the oscillation axis is measured to reconstruct the orientation of the sensor with respect to an external reference frame.
Fabrication-related nonidealities in the MEMS structure constitute the main challenge in the development of electronic control architectures for achieving high-end sensor performance.