Design and application of attitude measuring device for DC power output filter circuit

Huan-ling ZHAO

Guizhou Vocational Technical University，Guiyang 550023，China

1.Introduction

As a measuring equipment to measure the roll angle and the pitch angle of a carrier at a low angular rate(less than 20°/s)，the attitude measuring device calculates the system angle and the pitch angle through measuring the component of the gravity acceleration with the sensor and eliminating the influence of the roll angular rate at the same time.

In the practical application，the attitude measuring device is provided with a DC power supply mainly from the system，and the quadratic DC power supply of the device provides the working power supply for the sensor because of the limits of the system working environment.In order to improve the measuring accuracy of the roll angle and the pitch angle，the sensor uses the quartz flexible accelerometer to obtain the acceleration of gravity.The quadratic DC power supply of the attitude measuring device provides the working power supply for the accelerometer.According to the accelerometer servo circuit principle，direct coupling noise of the system power supply and the DC power supply circuit will have a rather obvious effect on the frequency and amplitude of circuit trapezoidal wave in the servo circuit，resulting in a large zero drift，which will directly affect the zero position output of the accelerometer，and eventually lead to the system output stability error.According to the actual working situation of the system，the attitude measuring device second-order low-pass filters the accelerometer output with signal processing circuit to reduce the noise produced by the accelerometer bandwidth during working at first.Then，for the direct coupling noise of the system power supply，the need of conditioning the DC power supply output and reducing the influence of which direct coupling noise results on the accelerometer zero output is necessary.Therefore，during the design process of DC power supply circuit，the design of DC power supply output filter circuit has considerable engineering application value for improving the zero position stability of attitude measuring device.

2.The circuit principle

DC power supply circuit isolates and filters the 27 V power provided by the system and provides the±15 V working power supply for the sensor on the accelerometer and other electronic components.For the ±15 V power supply of the accelerometer，DC power supply circuit consists of a transient suppression circuit，a filter circuit，a DC/DC converter circuit and an output filter circuit.The schematic diagram ofDC powersupplycircuitisshown in Figure 1.

Figure 1.Schematic diagram of DC power supply

Transient voltage suppressor(TVS)is a high performance circuit protection device currently used over the world.With the same shape of ordinary diode，it also has the ability of absorbing up to several kilowatts power surge.The main characteristic is，in the reverse application conditions，when it is subjected to a surge，or other high energy transient overvoltage pulse，the impedance will immediately fall to an extremely low conduction value，allowing high current through and clamping the voltage at the predetermined level with a response time of only 10～12 ms，so that the precision components in the electronic circuit can be effectively protected.The measuring device utilizes TVS to manage the inlet of the 27 V system-provided power supply and absorb all kinds of transient interference there so that the electronic components in electronic circuit can be effectively protected.

Moreover，the electrical isolation can be achieved by converting the 27 V system-provided power supply into±15 V working power for acceleration via the DC/DC DC power supply module.In order to reduce the interference of 27 V system-provided power supply acting on the DC/DC DC power supply module and the high frequency harmonic produced by switching power supply during working，the input end is facing to the high impedance(capacitor)and the output end to low impedance(DC/DC DC power supply module)at the inlet of filter circuit.In that way，impedance matching is realized and the best filtering effect is achieved.

In addition，outputting DC regulated power supply of the DC/DC DC module is with relatively large noise and has great influence on zero stability of the accelerometer，so the output filter circuit is usually used to connect the input end connected to high impedance(DC/DC DC power supply module output)and output end to high impedance(other active devices).

3.The circuit design

For the design of the accelerometer±15 V DC power supply circuit，the transient suppression circuit adopts a transient voltage suppression diode;the inlet filter circuit uses DC power supply filter，and DC/DC converter takes the DC/DC DC power supply module.The circuit is accomplished to meet the need of the circuit principle.Figure 2 shows part of the circuit design with transient suppression circuit，inlet filter circuit and DC/DC converter circuit according to the circuit principle.

Asshown in Figure2，V1 isthe TVS SY5645A，N1 and N2 are the power filter JLC6101-3YBE，and G1 is the DC/DC DC power supply module FED20-24D15.

Figure 2.Part of DC/DC converter circuit

In the DC power supply circuit of the accelerometer，voltage drop is very small while the DC switching power supply module is turned on and the leakage current is also very small while the module is turned off，the energy consumption is close to zero and the power conversion efficiency can proceed up to 80%.

However，due to the high frequency working state of the switching power supply，which belongs to the strong interference source，current higher harmonic interference generated by the basic rectifier and peak voltage interference created by power conversion circuit are the main causes of its internal interference［1］.In the attitude measuring device，the normal work of the accelerometer servo circuit will be affected.

Therefore，in order to reduce the coupling noise interference of DC power supply circuit’s power supply and the system power of the attitude measuring device，the output filter circuit should be designed according to the principle of the DC power supply circuit.

Firstly，the undesired signal occupies a certain frequency and space range;and for different interference signals，different measures should be adopted，one way is to shut it out，commonly with electromagnetic shielding technology to block the communication channel of interference signal or separate the interference signal and the working signal of the equipment in time，frequency and space range.The other measure is eliminating the interference signal with bypass and absorption method［2］.

Secondly，as a low pass filter，the frequency response is the most common parameters for the performance of the filter.When a frequency response index is given，an appropriate filter must be chosen by first converting the required frequency response to the normalized low-pass form with 1 rad/s cutoff frequency，and then compared with normalized low-pass filter curves whose response and cutoff frequencies are also 1 rad/s after being normalized.After choosing a satisfying low pass filter，its value is transformed or normalized.The low-pass response mainly includes Butterworth response，Chebyshev response，linear phase response，synchronous tuning response，transient response，and elliptic function response［3］.

Finally，on the basis of the accelerometer servo circuit of attitude measuring device，the output filter circuit is designed in DC power supply circuit.The output filter circuit is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3.Output filter circuit

As shown in Figure 3，N3 and N4 are the power supply filter JLC6101-1DBE.Its internal circuit is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4.JLC6101-1DBE internal circuit

The working current of the accelerometer IOis 30 mA.As the switching power supply ripple current is 20%of the output current，the ripple current I is:

I=IO×20%=30×20%=6 mA (1)

I is the ripple current(mA)，and IOis the working current(mA)of the accelerometer.The working voltage of the accelerometer VOis 15 V and the ripple voltage V(mV)is:

V=VO× 0.3%=15 × 0.3%=45 mV(2)

V is the ripple voltage(mV)，and VOis the working voltage(mV)of the accelerometer.

Then the capacitance impedance ESR is:

The working frequency of the switching power supply module is 45 kHz.The capacitors C2 and C4 are chosen with 10 μF.

4.The analysis of the circuit application

As the system turns on and works at zero position，the 27 V power supply provided to the attitude measuring device is 25 V DC with 80 mV AC noise(peak-to-peak value).An oscilloscope is used to monitor the AC noise and the result is shown in Figure 5.The abscissa represents time(μs)and ordinate shows voltage amplitude(mV)of AC noise.

Figure 5.AC noise output of 27 V system-provided power supply

If the output filter circuit is not added into the DC power supply circuit of attitude measuring device，when the system starts up，there is slight jitter，and the pitch angle and roll angle outputs of attitude measuring device show a jump about 0.2°.Monitoring the accelerometer zero output with an oscilloscope，it can be found that AC noise of the accelerometer at zero position is about 60 mV and a low frequency noise of 10 K and 2 mV appears at the same time.AC noise of the accelerometer is shown in Figure 6.The abscissa represents time(μs)and ordinate shows voltage amplitude(mV)of AC noise.

Figure 6.AC noise output of the accelerometer(without output filter circuit)

When the output filter circuit is not added into the DC power supply circuit of attitude measuring device and the system starts up，jitter does not appear and the system works well［4-6］.Monitoring the accelerometer zero output with an oscilloscope，it can be found that AC noise of the accelerometer at zero position is about only 30 mV，and no obvious low frequency noise turns up.Figure 7 shows AC noise of the accelerometer with output filter circuit.The abscissa represents time(μs)and ordinate shows voltage amplitude(mV)of AC noise.

Figure 7.AC noise output of the accelerometer(with output filter circuit)

According to the differences between Figures 6 and 7，it is obvious that，except the DC/DC power supply module switching frequency noise，the amplitudes of other accelerometer AC noise outputs decrease significantly with the output filter circuit.At the same time，the low frequency noise with the frequency of 10 K and the amplitude of 2 mV is effectively curbed;the pitch angle and the roll angle of attitude measuring device output run steadily and the system works normally.Therefore，the output filter circuit of DC power supply can satisfy the actual need of the system.

5.Conclusion

From the analysis and application above，the coupling noise of the system power supply and DC power supply of the attitude measuring device has a considerable influence on the output of the accelerometer.After passing the output filter circuit，the output noise of the accelerometer has been effectively controlled and the low frequency signal which leads to system jitter can be restrained.As a result，the system can be guaranteed to work normally in practical engineering applications.At the same time，considering the low system working frequency and in order to speed up the attenuation of the output disturbance signal in the stopband region，adding the voltagecontrolled second-order low-pass filter at the output end of the acceleration can suppress the high frequency signal and effectively ensure the stability of the system.

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