Vibrating Beam Angular Rate Sensors

Northrop Grumman
2002–03

Northrop Grumman is the second largest defense contractor in America, designing and producing a wide variety of technologies ranging from aircraft to sensors.  The clinic team performed a proof-of-concept study using microelectrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology to produce a vibrating beam angular rate sensor based on the Coriolis force.  Experimental and analytical results were reported.

Advisor(s): Peter N. Saeta and Robert P. Wolf.