Vibrating Beam Angular Rate Sensors
January 1, 2003Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems Physics, 2002-03
Liaison(s): Robert Stewart,  Ken Marino
Advisor(s): Peter Saeta,  Robert Wolf
Students(s): Trevor Oliver (PM),  Jon Faul,  Noah Beck,  Michael Price,  Michael Shimogawa
Northrup Grumman is the second largest defense contractor in America, designing and producing a wide variety of technologies ranging from aircraft to sensors. Our team is performing a proof-of-concept study on using microelectrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology to produce a vibrating beam angular rate sensor based on the Coriolis force. We will report on both the experimental and analytical results of the study.