Application of chaos theory to digital transducer design

In this paper the application of the computer based approach originally developed at UCL, Thompson & Soliman (1990), for the determination of stability of marine structures is applied to the investigation of performance of a typical digital accelerometer structure. One of the features of this work is that large amounts of data have to be processed. This is achieved by use of parameter plane, Poincare sectioning and safe basin techniques in software designed specifically for the purpose of advanced transducer analysis. Results are presented with practical comparisons of different transducer and modulator structures types of stability compensation. Examples of the potential uses for these techniques are discussed and software demonstrated.