Dither Filtering of Real RLG Signal Using Wavelet Transforms

— Ring Laser Gyroscopes (RLGs) are widely used in many airborne and navigation systems for accurate measurement of the true rotation of the body movement. But the RLG’s suffer a serious problem at low frequencies known as Lock–in frequency. To avoid lock-in problem, the RLG is vibrated mechanically to a high frequency which is known as Dithering. In order to get the true rotation of the body the dither signal has to be removed. Single stage, multistage and multirate filters are suggested to remove the dither signal. These filters have the disadvantage that either the FIR filter length is too large or the phase characteristics are nonlinear. In this work, multiresolution Wavelet Transform (WT) techniques are used to remove the dither signal. Five level multiresolution analysis is carried out with various types of wavelets like Discrete Meyer and Daubechies 45 (db45) etc. With none of the standard wavelets, the original and reconstructed signals are matched. A new wavelet is designed to remove the dither signal. The required signal can be reconstructed back using the approximation coefficients at level 5. The dither signal is attenuated by 107.0 dB, and the phase characteristics are found to be linear in the pass band. The computational complexity is also less compared to the three stage combined filter reported earlier.