Control of nonlinear vibrations of vibrating ring microgyroscope

The influence of the basement rotation on the variations in the spectrum of vibration frequencies of thin elastic shells and rings was known already at the end of the 19th century [1]. The physical phenomenon of inertness of elastic waves occurring free vibrations of an axisymmetric body, first explained in [2], were practically used in developing new types of gyros [2–6]. The foundations of the theory of wave gyros were laid in [2, 4], and the errors of such gyroscopes for various shapes of the vibrating resonator were studied in [2, 4, 7, 8]. It was shown that the error of the resonator manufacturing (the variable density, thickness, anisotropy of the material elastic properties, etc.) [2, 8] and the geometric nonlinearity of the resonator flexural vibrations studied in [2, 7] lead to splitting of the natural frequency of flexural vibrations [2], which is reflected in the wave picture of the resonator vibrations and characterizes the gyroscope precision. In the present paper, we study the errors of the vibrating microgyroscope which arise because of nonlinear elastic properties of the ring resonator material. We construct a control of the potential on the electrodes which allows one to maintain the prescribed amplitude of the normal resonator deflection and compensate for the gyroscope errors arising because of the nonlinear elastic properties of the material.