ON THE DESIGN OF A TRIAXIAL ACCELEROMETER

Up to now, mainly uniaxial accelerometers are described in most public ations concerning this subject. However, triaxial accelerometers are n eeded in the biomedical field. Commercially available triaxial acceler ometers consisting of three orthogonally positioned uniaxial devices d o not meet all specifications of the biomedical application. Therefore , a new highly symmetrical inherently triaxial accelerometer is being developed, the advantages of which are higher sensitivity and reductio n of off-axis sensitivity.