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ArticleMicromachines2025

Design, Analysis, and Simulation of a MEMS Tuning Fork Gyroscope with a Mechanical Amplification Structure.

Haotian Hu, Benedetta Calusi, Alvise Bagolini, Maria F Pantano

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Article in Micromachines, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Haotian HuDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Benedetta CalusiDipartimento di Matematica e Informatica "Ulisse Dini", Università degli Studi di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 67/a, 50134 Firenze, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9465-1872
Alvise BagoliniCenter for Sensors and Devices, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1936-4002
Maria F PantanoDepartment of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5415-920X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes a novel micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) tuning fork gyroscope (TFG) design that employs a chevron-shaped displacement mechanism to amplify the displacement generated by the Coriolis force, thereby increasing the TFG's mechanical sensitivity. This approach was evaluated using both theoretical modeling and finite element analysis (FEA), and the results showed a high degree of agreement between the two methods. A conventional TFG having a comparable area was also designed and analyzed for comparison purposes. By introducing the displacement amplification mechanism, the proposed MEMS TFG design provides an output displacement about 2.5 times higher than the conventional design, according to the computation, without increasing the device footprint. Theoretical analysis and FEA on the TFG with amplification and a conventional TFG confirmed that the amplified displacement significantly improves the mechanical sensitivity of the gyroscope compared to conventional TFG designs.

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amplification mechanismmechanical sensitivityMEMStuning fork gyroscope

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PMID40047679
PMCPMC11857292

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