• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.8
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• pp.788-795
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• 2011

In this paper, we present the requirements specification to develop the small ring laser gyroscope(RLG) which is applicable to the medium-grade inertial navigation system(INS) widely used as a main navigation system. To this end, first we analyse the performance specifications of RLG which is needed to configure the medium-grade INS and then we present the design results of RLG to meet the performance specifications, based on the overseas technology survey and the theoretical analysis. It is also shown in this paper what technology is required to develop a small RLG.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.68-73
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• 2004

Flexure measurement of ring laser gyro was investigated by using an interferometer. A two-beam interferometer of Fiezo-fringe pattern obtained the flexure angle in 1-gravity acceleration and the higher acceleration environments. These environments were made with the addition of dummy mass to the ring laser gyro axis. The flexure angle change for 1-gravity acceleration change was measured as 2.37 arcsec/g with low repeatability error of 0.01 arcsec/g. The laser navigation system consisting of 3 flexure-reduced ring laser gyros showed the improvement of flexure error.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.8
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• pp.65-74
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• 2005

It is required for getting the ring laser gyro output purely related to the input rotation to eliminate the output of the modulated angular vibration from the ring laser signal. In this paper we discuss the dither stripping methods of compensating the ring laser signal by converting the rate signal of dither detector from voltage to frequency for a dither type ring laser gyro. We discuss the differential methods for getting rid of the offset of the V-F signal. And we develope the methods of compensating the phase differences between the ring laser signals and the V-F differential signals by using analog integrator and digital time delays. And also, we develope the gain calculation method by comparing the standard deviations of the ring laser signals with V-F differential signals. We implemented these methods and analyzed the effectiveness of these methods by comparing the dither trapping methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.2
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• pp.459-462
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• 2006

스트랩다운 관성항법장치에 사용되는 대표적인 광학식 자이로인 링레이저 자이로(Ring Laser Gyro ; RLG)는 회전체가 없어 기존의 기계식 자이로가 가지고 있던 g-sensitive 오차가 발생하지 않지만 RLG 내부에 부착되어 링레이저를 반사시키는 기능을 하는 반사경의 산란에 의해 일정 크기의 작은 입력 각속도를 측정하지 못하는 lock-in이 발생한다. 이러한 lock-in을 제거하기 위해 정현파 진동을 RLG 몸체에 인가하며 이 진동에 의하여 자이로 출력에 랜덤워크 성분이 유발되어 RLG 성능저하의 원인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 RLG 랜덤워크에 의한 관성항법장치의 초기정렬 기법에 따른 초기정렬 성능을 분석하고 이에 대한 시뮬레이션 결과를 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.82-89
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• 2014

This paper discusses the methods for reducing the sampling time quantization errors of the body dither type ring laser gyroscope. A ring laser gyroscope has the angle quantization error which is generated by the frequency counting method of the laser beat signal and sampling time quantization error which is generated by the demodulation method for eliminating the body dithering in which the sampling periods are fitted to the dither periods. Generally, because the dither periods are longer than the calculation periods of the inertial navigation system, vehicle navigation errors are produced by long time attitude update missing during the vehicle move with a high dynamical motion. In this paper, the double demodulation method is proposed for reducing the sampling time quantization error and its effects under the dynamic situation are confirmed by simulation.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.270-271
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• 2003

링 레이저 자이로스코프는 회전각을 검출하는 센서로서 광학식이 가지는 정밀함과 견고성으로 관성항법을 비롯한 운동 제어를 필요로 하는 여러 분야에서 기존의 기계식 자이로스코프를 대체해 오고 있다. 링 레이저 자이로는 세 개 또는 네 개의 반사경으로 밀폐된 고리형 공진기를 구성하고 He-Ne 기체를 봉입하여 방전시킴으로써 서로 반대 방향으로 진행하는 레이저를 동시에 발진시키면 Sagnac 효과에 의해 공진기의 회전각에 비례하여 두 레이저의 주파수 차이가 발생하는 원리를 이용한다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.76-83
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• 2023

In this paper, the results of analyzing the frequency lock-in breaking characteristics of a ring laser gyroscope with random dithering through numerical experiments are presented. By observing the variant features in the frequency lock-in characteristics according to the dithering amplitude noise, it was possible to analyze the minimum noise condition that causes the frequency lock-in to be broken. It was confirmed that the result is closely related to the relative difference between the dynamic frequency lock-in corresponding to the average dithering amplitude and the frequency determined by the Sagnac effect corresponding to an input rotational angular velocity.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.63-71
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• 2003

In this paper we dicuss the dither-stripping methods by V-F(voltage to frequency) conversion of the output of angular velocity sensor which is for detecting the dither motion of the ring laser cavity. In this case, it is very important to evaluate the pulse-to-pulse scale factor between the ring lase output pulse and V-F output pulse, and also to compensate the zero offset of the V-F output pulse. In the case of the dither-stripping by the V-F conversion of angular velocity sensor output, there is a big angle uncertainty in the process of compensating the zero offset due to the dither noise for compensating the V-F output. By differential, the phase of the V-F output is changed. So, to compensate it, we change 90deg of the phase of angular velocity sensor output and delay half sampling time of the phase of ring laser output in advance. In this case the pulse-to-pulse scale factor can be evaluated by the standard deviation of each pulse. We can get the good result of the dither-stripping output by this angle differential method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.502-510
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• 2009

Laser Inertial Navigation System(LINS) consists of Ring Laser Gyroscopes(RLG) and accelerometers. RLG has a lock-in region in which there is zero output for input angular rates less than 0.1deg/sec. The lock-in region is generated by the imperfect mirrors in RLG. To avoid the lock-in region, sinusoidal motion which is called dither motion is applied on RLG. Therefore without the fault in LINS, the dither motion must be measured by RLG/accelerometer. In this paper, we propose the method to detect the fault of LINS through checking out whether or not the dither motion is always measured by RLG/accelerometer using the Fast Fourier Transformation(FFT) on the real time. The feasibility of the fault detection method proposed in this paper is verified through the stationary and van test.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.109-113
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• 2007

In this paper, the design process of the High Voltage Power Supply for RLG(Ring Laser Gyroscope) is described. The specification for High Voltage Power Supply(HVPS) is proposed. Also, The analysis of Flyback converter topology is explained. The Design for the HVPS is composed of the inverter circuit, feedback control circuit, high frequency switching transformer design, and voltage doubler circuit.