Statistical analysis of nature frequencies of hemispherical resonator gyroscope based on probability theory

A finite element model of the hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG) is established and the natural frequencies and vibration modes are investigated. The matrix perturbation technology in the random finite element method is first introduced to analyze the statistical characteristics of the natural frequencies of HRG. The influences of random material parameters and dimensional parameters on the natural frequencies are quantitatively described based on the probability theory. The statistics expressions of the random parameters are given and the influences of three key parameters on natural frequency are pointed out. These results are important for design and improvement of high accuracy HRG.