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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2000
Andrew J. Karpinski, Jr., Clearwater, FL (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
In a ring laser gyro (RLG), the dither pick off signal is applied to a variable gain amplifier, producing an output that controls the amplitude of the motion of a dither motor connected to the gyro. A square wave is generated from the dither pick off signal and applied to a signal processor with clockwise and counterclockwise signals produced by the motion of the gyro. The signal processor controls a multiplexer to select the gain for the variable gain amplifier by counting the clockwise and counterclockwise signals produced by the gyro motion in a interval (number of whole periods of dither motion) determined by counting the square wave signal produced from the dither pick off signal.