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Gyroscope Technology and Applications: A Review in the Industrial Perspective

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This paper is an overview of current gyroscopes and their roles based on their applications, and gyroscope technologies commercially available, such as Mechanical Gyroscope, silicon MEMS Gyroscopes, Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLGs) and Fiber-OpticGyroscopes (FOGs), are discussed.
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This paper is an overview of current gyroscopes and their roles based on their applications. The considered gyroscopes include mechanical gyroscopes and optical gyroscopes at macro- and micro-scale. Particularly, gyroscope technologies commercially available, such as Mechanical Gyroscopes, silicon MEMS Gyroscopes, Ring Laser Gyroscopes (RLGs) and Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes (FOGs), are discussed. The main features of these gyroscopes and their technologies are linked to their performance.

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Review on Wearable Technology Sensors Used in Consumer Sport Applications

TL;DR: Analyzing the role of wearable technology for different users and why there is such a need for these devices in everyday lives shows how different sensors are influential in delivering a variety of readings that are useful in many ways regarding sport attributes.
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Inertial sensors technologies for navigation applications: state of the art and future trends

TL;DR: Inertial sensors error modeling techniques have been developing rapidly trying to ensure higher levels of navigation accuracy using lower-cost inertial sensors, and this review covers a brief overview on the inertialerror modeling techniques used to enhance the performance of low-cost sensors.
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A 104-dB dynamic range transimpedance-based CMOS ASIC for tuning fork microgyroscopes

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Micromachined inertial sensors

TL;DR: Inertial sensors have seen a steady improvement in their performance, and today, microaccelerometers can resolve accelerations in the micro-g range, while the performance of gyroscopes has improved by a factor of 10/spl times/ every two years during the past eight years.
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Inertial sensor technology trends

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of how inertial sensor technology is applied in current applications and how it is expected to be applied in near and far-term applications, namely interferometric fiber-optic gyros, micro-mechanical gyros and accelerometers and micro-optical sensors.
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Inertial navigation systems analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a mechanization and error analysis of inertial navigation systems is presented, with an emphasis on terrestrial applications on or slightly above the earth's surface, and a unified error analysis technique is developed that is applicable to virtually all system configurations.
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