Unbiased acceleration measurements with an electrostatic accelerometer on a rotating platform

The Gravity Advanced Package is an instrument composed of an electrostatic accelerometer called MicroSTAR and a rotating platform called Bias Rejection System. It aims at measuring with no bias the non-gravitational acceleration of a spacecraft. It is envisioned to be embarked on an interplanetary spacecraft as a tool to test the laws of gravitation.     

Free fall tests of the accelerometers of the MICROSCOPE mission

The MICROSCOPE mission is fully dedicated to the in-orbit test of the Universality of free fall, the so-called Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), with an expected accuracy better than 10⁻¹⁵. The test principle consists in comparing the accelerations of two proof masses of different composition in the Earth gravitational field. The payload embarks two pairs of test-masses made of Platinum Rhodium and Titanium alloys at the core of two dedicated coaxial electrostatic accelerometers. These instruments are under qualification for a launch in 2016.     

Impact of a novel hybrid accelerometer on satellite gravimetry performance

The state-of-the-art electrostatic accelerometers (EA) used for the retrieval of non-gravitational forces acting on a satellite constitute a core component of every dedicated gravity field mission. However, due to their difficult-to-control thermal drift in the low observation frequencies, they are also one of the most limiting factors of the achievable performance of gravity recovery. Recently, a hybrid accelerometer consisting of a regular EA and a novel cold atom interferometer (CAI) that features a time-invariant observation stability and constantly recalibrates the EA has been developed in order to remedy this major drawback. In this paper we aim to assess the value of the hybrid accelerometer for gravity field retrieval in the context of GRACE-type and Bender-type missions by means of numerical closed-loop simulations where possible noise specifications of the novel instrument are considered and different components of the Earth’s gravity field signal are added subsequently. It is shown that the quality of the gravity field solutions is mainly dependent on the CAI’s measurement accuracy. While a low CAI performance (10^?8 to 10^?9?m/s²/Hz^1/2) does not lead to any gains compared to a stand-alone EA, a sufficiently high one (10^?11?m/s²/Hz^1/2) may improve the retrieval performance by over one order of magnitude. We also show that improvements which are limited to low-frequency observations may even propagate into high spherical harmonic degrees. Further, the accelerometer performance seems to play a less prominent role if the overall observation geometry is improved as it is the case for a Bender-type mission. The impact of the accelerometer measurements diminishes further when temporal variations of the gravity field are introduced, pointing out the need for proper de-aliasing techniques. An additional study reveals that the hybrid accelerometer is – contrary to a stand-alone EA – widely unaffected by scale factor instabilities.     

静电悬浮微加速度计高灵敏度电容检测通道设计

高灵敏度电容式位移检测是实现静电悬浮微加速度计闭环测控的关键技术之一.针对微加速度计径向悬浮检测的特点及指标要求,设计了高灵敏度、高精度电容式微位移检测通道.该通道主要由前置RC隔离网络与C/V转换、高共模抑制比差动放大器、二级运放、二阶压控电压源有源带通滤波、相敏解调(含模拟乘法器与四阶Butterworth低通滤波...     

随机振动校准加速度计方法研究

介绍了随机振动校准加速度计系统的实现.使用随机信号传感器绝对校准方法,得到了较为理想的加速度计频响曲线.与传统的方法相比在保证校准精度的前提下,提高了效率.     

印刷电路板振动模态的精确测试方法

印刷电路板的动力学特性直接影响机载电子设备在振动和冲击环境下的工作可靠性,有必要在设计阶段对其进行动力学分析.印刷电路板为薄壁结构,质量一般较小,在使用传统的加速度传感器测量时,传感器的附加质量会对模态测试结果造成影响.通过加速度传感器与激光测振仪测试数据的对比,分析了加速度传感器附加质量对模态测试结果的影响,验证了传感器附加质量消除方法的效果,结论认为传感器附加质量对印刷电路板模态测试的结果影响明显且这种影响不能被完全消除;使用扫描式激光测振仪可以得到精确详细的模态参数.     

基于FPGA的捷联惯组数据采集系统设计与实现

惯性器件性能的好坏直接决定了武器系统的性能,惯性器件的测试工作需要专门的脉冲采集系统来实现,本文介绍了一种基于FPGA的新型惯组脉冲采集系统,通过选用XC3S1000-4FGG676I芯片轻松实现了多路脉冲信号、交直流电压量以及温度传感器信号采集,抗干扰措施的采用有效地保证了该系统的稳定性和可靠性,经过大量的试验考核目前已经正式运用于捷联惯组的单元测试过程中。     

高精度加速度计力矩器磁路的设计与仿真分析

力矩器磁路性能决定了加速度计标度因数的性能,为此利用有限元方法对力矩器磁路的磁通密度进行分析,在此基础上提出了两种结构优化设计方案,并对其进行仿真计算。仿真结果表明,改变导磁帽的形状可以提高气隙磁场的磁通密度的稳定性和均匀性,但导磁帽易出现饱和现象;通过降低磁钢的高度,同时增加导磁帽的高度,既能大幅度的提高磁场的稳定性和均匀性,导磁帽也不会出现饱和现象,但气隙磁场的磁通密度均值会降低37.25%,非线性误差为1.83%,优化后气隙磁场存在着磁通密度稳定（径向均值为0.42868T）和均匀的区域。     

基于时间测量的加速度敏感方法

国际单位制共有7个基本单位，时间就是7个基本单位之一，是目前能够实现的测量精度最高的一个物理量。因此，将加速度的测量转化为时间的测量，是实现加速度高精度检测的有效途径。首先，介绍了基于时间测量的加速度敏感原理。然后，介绍了基于该敏感原理的加速度传感器研究进展。最后，进行了基于时间测量的加速度计精度的定性和定量分析。理论分析和实验证实表明，加速度精度极限与时间分辨率之间成正比关系。     

硅微谐振式加速度计技术现状及展望

硅微谐振式微加速度计是各种MEMS加速度计中被普遍看好并期待为将来的高精度微加速度计发展的一个重要方向,正在全世界范围内被广泛研究。本文对硅微谐振式微加速度计的发展现状进行了评述。根据国内外不同的技术实现,诸如工作原理、微加工工艺实现、应用范围等对其进行了分类阐述。最后,对硅微谐振式加速度计研究中一些关键技术进行了讨论,并提出了展望。