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Solutions to the problem of bias stability:
Correcting for temperature drift and long term stability |
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Buy an expensive sensor ($100 +)
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End product too expensive, leading to bankruptcy and personal humiliation
Use a microcontroller with a temperature sensor
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Zero g bias drift can be measured over temperature and compensated for by the microcontroller
Temperature induced effects are relatively linear so they are easy to handle using either a look-up table or a mathematical solution
Use an Analog correction circuit
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I.e. add a temperature controlled gain stage with an op-amp and a thermistor
Hard to match response for sensor to sensor variance
Use a temperature controlled crystal oven
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Holds the accelerometer at a constant temp, so drift due to temp doesn't exist
Crystal oven may consume a lot of power (500 mA)
Allow a user recalibration
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Let the user hit a "reset button" from time to time when the accelerometer is experiencing zero g
Be very clever in your application
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Does your application really need to be DC coupled (i.e. do you need to measure tilt)? If not you should AC couple the accelerometer, via a capacitor, to your signal conditioning stage to eliminate bias drift
Use software to detect very low speed, long term, zero changes
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