Fiber optic gyro technology trends - A Honeywell perspective

2002 15th Optical Fiber Sensors Conference Technical Digest, OFS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 5-8

  Sanders, S J ^a   Strandjord, L K ^a   Mead, D ^a  

^a HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; FIBER OPTIC GYRO; HIGH-PRECISION; HONEYWELL; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

GYROSCOPES;

EID: 84963654102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFS.2002.1000487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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7. Here NEA is defined as the maximum difference between (a) the measured gyro angle outputs and (b) the angle predicted solely from a 1-hr bias estimate.