Energy Dissipation Contribution Modeling of Vibratory Behavior for Silicon Micromachined Gyroscope

Energy dissipation contribution of micro-machined Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (MCVG) is modeled, numerically simulated, and experimentally verified in this paper. First, the amount of independent damping dissipation consisting of thermoelastic loss, anchor loss, surface loss, Akhiezer loss, and air damping loss during vibration is obtained by simulation model, PML-based method, and numerical calculation, respectively. Then, temperature and pressure dependence characteristic of the corresponding quality factor (Q) for the MCVG are obtained. Meanwhile, dominant sources of damping dissipation are determined, which paves the way to improve Q. Finally, the temperature-dependent and pressure-dependent characteristics of the total Q are measured with errors of less than 10% and 18% compared with the simulated total Q, respectively, in which accuracy is acceptable for predicting the damping dissipation behavior of MCVG in design stage before high-cost fabrication.

Design and Simulation of Micromachined Gyroscope based on Finite Element Method

This paper presents a design, simulation and analysis of a vibratory micromachining gyroscope. The gyroscope structure is based on the driving and sensing proof-mass configuration. The gyroscope dimensions are 1644 µm wide, 1754 µm long, 30µm thickness. The suspended spring consists of two silicon cantilevers of driving-mode and sensing-mode stiffness are 400 N/m and 165 N/m, respectively. Mass of driving proof-mass (including of 0.9408×10E-11 kg sensing proof-mass) is 0.5452×10E-7 kg. The simulated resonance frequency is 13324 Hz. The output signals are calculated based on the simulated vibration results. The structure is investigated with several input angular signals. The sensitivity of proposed structure is 100 mV/rad/s when ω changes from 0 to 1.6 rad/s.