Gyroscope enables high-precision machine control and positioning applications

Mouser now stocks the SCH16T-K01 6-DoF gyroscope by Murata Electronics.

This gyroscope is AEC-Q100 qualified and combines three-axis angular rate and three-axis accelerometers with a digital SPI interface. The angular rate and accelerometer sensor elements are constructed on the company's capacitive 3D-MEMS technology, and the signal processing is completed by a single mixed-signal ASIC that supplies angular rate and acceleration via a flexible SafeSPI v2.0 compliant digital interface. This device features a ±300°/s calibrated angular rate measurement range, ±80m/s2 calibrated acceleration measurement range, and an auxiliary digital accelerometer channel with up to ±260m/s2 dynamic range. The gyroscope provides extensive self-diagnostic features and angular rate and acceleration low pass filters ranging from 13Hz to 370Hz cut-off rate.

Applications for the device include inertial navigation and positioning, machine control and guidance, dynamic inclination, robotic control, and UAVs.