Reliability Testing Procedure for MEMS IMUs Applied to Vibrating Environments 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2010, 10, 456-474; doi:10.3390/s100100456 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Reliability Testing Procedure for MEMS IMUs Applied to Vibrating Environments Giorgio De Pasquale * and Aurelio Somà Department of Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy; E-Mail: aurelio.soma@polito.it * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: giorgio.depasquale@polito.it; Tel.: +39-011-56-46-912; Fax: +39-011-56-46-999. Received: 10 December 2009; in revised form: 24 December 2009 / Accepted: 28 December 2009 / Published: 7 January 2010 Abstract: The diffusion of micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology applied to navigation systems is rapidly increasing, but currently, there is a lack of knowledge about the reliability of this typology of devices, representing a serious limitation to their use in aerospace vehicles and other fields with medium and high requirements. In this paper, a reliability testing procedure for inertial sensors and inertial measurement units (IMU) based on MEMS for applications in vibrating environments is presented. The sensing performances were evaluated in terms of signal accuracy, systematic errors, and accidental errors; the actual working conditions were simulated by means of an accelerated dynamic excitation. A commercial MEMS-based IMU was analyzed to validate the proposed procedure. The main weaknesses of the system have been localized by providing important information about the relationship between the reliability levels of the system and individual components. Keywords: IMU; MEMS, navigation systems; reliability; accelerometers; aerospace List of symbols a acceleration ba acceleration bias bω angular velocity bias K rate random walk coefficient  Sensors 2010, 10 457 la measured acceleration lω measured angular velocity N number of samples R S drift rate r