Parallel-beam sensor/actuator unit and its application to the gyroscope

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 266-272

  Sato, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; GYROSCOPES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORS;

PARALLEL-BEAM SENSOR/ACTUATOR SYSTEMS;

MECHATRONICS;

EID: 0034271289     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3516.868918     Document Type: Article

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