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However, because of the FOGs\u2019 high cost and relatively big volume relative to the back narrow space of small rotating mirrors, we attempt in this work to utilize a cheaper and smaller micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) accelerometer to build the inner loop, replacing the FOG. Unfortunately, since accelerometers are susceptible to the low-frequency noise, according to the classical way of using accelerometers, the crucial low-frequency DSA of the system is insufficient. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose an approach based on MEMS accelerometers combining disturbance observer (DOB) with triple-loop control (TLC) in which the composite velocity loop is built by acceleration integration and corrected by CCD. The DOB is firstly used to reform the platform, greatly improving the medium-frequency DSA. Then the composite velocity loop exchanges a part of medium-frequency performance for the low-frequency DSA. A detailed analysis and experiments verify the proposed method has a better DSA than the traditional way and could totally substitute FOG in the LOS stabilization.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17112648","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,17]],"date-time":"2017-11-17T12:00:20Z","timestamp":1510920020000},"page":"2648","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Combining a Disturbance Observer with Triple-Loop Control Based on MEMS Accelerometers for Line-of-Sight Stabilization"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9753-8063","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yong","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Yongmei","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1785-2018","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yao","family":"Mao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Ren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China"}]},{"given":"Qiongyan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Optical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China"},{"name":"Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Chengdu 610209, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,11,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Cochran, R.W., and Vassar, R.H. 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