Accurate calibration for drift of fiber optic gyroscope in multi-position north-seeking phase

This paper presents an accurate calibration method for drift of fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) in multi-position north-seeking phase. To avoid the effect of the rate of change of accelerometer bias on the drift estimate of FOG, north-seeking by coarse-alignment is performed in multi positions and the northseeking results are used to compute the drift of FOG. The laboratory test results prove that the proposed method can not only achieve multi-position north-seeking, but also accurately calibrate the drift of FOG. The comparison with the traditional method highlights the superior performance of the proposed method. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.