Controller Design of a MEMS Gyro-Accelerometer with a Single Proof Mass

This paper presents a parametric study on the controller design scheme for a gyro-accelerometer to have robust performance under some parameter variations. In particular, an integral and derivative based controller design method is suggested to achieve the desired performances of stability margin, bandwidth, and uniformity of scale for both gyroscopes and accelerometers with uncertainties of quality factor and resonant frequency. The simulation result shows that the control loop based on the suggested method gives satisfactory performance robustness under parameter variations, demonstrating the usefulness of the proposed design scheme.

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