Analysis and Compensation of Imperfection Effects in Piezoelectric Vibratory Gyroscopes

i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv NOMENCLATURE vi LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF FIGURES xi CHAPTER 1-Introduction 1 1.1 Principles of Operation of Vibratory Gyroscopes 1 1.2 Review of Vibratory Gyroscope Designs 4 1.3 Effects of Imperfections 8 1.4 Research Objectives 11 1.5 Dissertation Layout 11 CHAPTER 2-Piezoelectric Resonator Modeling 13 2.

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