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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Zhejun Fan, Dunlap, IL (US);
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73-177 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for modeling dynamic effects on a gyroscope. The dynamic effects are represented by a dynamic effects function. The gyroscope is placed in an oven. A test controller, coupled to the oven, controls the oven to modify the temperature of the gyroscope according to a predetermined temperature function, measures an actual temperature value of the test oven and a gyroscope drift value at predetermined time intervals during the predetermined temperature function, and calculates coefficients of the dynamic effects function as a function of the actual temperature and gyroscope drift values at the predetermined time intervals.