Meet the editors

Xuye Zhuang received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2004 from the Southwest Petroleum University. Since 2004 he studied at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received his PhD degree in Engineering Science from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (currently named University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) in 2009. He is currently working

as a full professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology. He has been appointed a member of Young Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province, China. His research interest focuses on micro/nanosensors and MEMS/NEMS. He has about 20 patents and published more than 30 articles in international journals and conferences.

Lianqun Zhou studied at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2003. Since 2007, he studied at the Micro Nano Sciences & Systems Department (MN2S) of the FEMTO-ST Institute, Besançon, France (www.femto-st.fr). He received his PhD degree in Engineering Science in 2010 at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, and the Graduate School of

the Chinese Academy of Sciences (now named University of Chinese Academy of Sciences). He is currently working as a full professor at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest focuses on the development of nanomaterials, micro/nanosensors, and MEMS chips. He has published more than 30 articles in international journals and is the coauthor of 20 patents.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 77**

Modeling of Inertial Rate Sensor Errors Using Autoregressive and Moving

*by Hongyu Zhao, Sen Qiu, Zhelong Wang, Ning Yang, Jie Li and Jianjun Wang*

Discrete-Time Nonlinear Attitude Tracking Control of Spacecraft

Applications of MEMS Gyroscope for Human Gait Analysis

Introductory Chapter: Gyroscopes - Principles and Applications

IFOG and IORG Gyros: A Study of Comparative Performance

*by Xuye Zhuang, Pinghua Li, Dongxing Li and Wentao Sui*

On the Development and Application of FOG

*by Xuejuan Lin, Wenlong Han, Ke Chen and Wen Zhang*

*by Ramón José Pérez Menéndez*

Average (ARMA) Models *by Mundla Narasimhappa*

*by Yuichi Ikeda*
