Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock

Chouvion, B., McWilliam, S. and Popov, A.A. (2018) Effect of nonlinear electrostatic forces on the dynamic behaviour of a capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscope under severe shock. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 106 . pp. 395-412. ISSN 0888-3270

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Abstract

This paper investigates the dynamic behaviour of capacitive ring-based Coriolis Vibrating Gyroscopes (CVGs) under severe shock conditions. A general analytical model is developed for a multi-supported ring resonator by describing the in-plane ring response as a finite sum of modes of a perfect ring and the electrostatic force as a Taylor series expansion. It is shown that the supports can induce mode coupling and that mode coupling occurs when the shock is severe and the electrostatic forces are nonlinear. The influence of electrostatic nonlinearity is investigated by numerically simulating the governing equations of motion. For the severe shock cases investigated, when the electrode gap reduces by ∼60%∼60%, it is found that three ring modes of vibration (1θ,2θ1θ,2θ and 3θ3θ) and a 9th order force expansion are needed to obtain converged results for the global shock behaviour. Numerical results when the 2θ2θ mode is driven at resonance indicate that electrostatic nonlinearity introduces mode coupling which has potential to reduce sensor performance under operating conditions. Under some circumstances it is also found that severe shocks can cause the vibrating response to jump to another stable state with much lower vibration amplitude. This behaviour is mainly a function of shock amplitude and rigid-body motion damping.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/943882
Keywords: Vibrating ring gyroscope; Electrostatic forcing; Shock response; Nonlinear dynamics
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Engineering
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2017.12.043
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2018 11:15
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:43
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/49884

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