Vibrating Beam Angular Rate Sensors

Northrop 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.