the invention is a vibratory rotation sensor comprising a resonator and a housing to which the resonator is attached and a method for reading out the standing - wave orientation angle utilizing a tracking angle which is maintained equal to the orientation angle on average . the resonator is a rotationally - symmetric thin - walled object that can be made to vibrate in a plurality of standing - wave modes . the method includes applying driving voltages to housing electrodes and determining the orientation of a standing wave by performing operations on the resonator signal that arrives at a single resonator output port from one or more electrodes in close proximity to the housing electrodes . a driving voltage may include either a pair of excitation voltages or a forcing voltage or both . an excitation voltage has essentially no effect on the resonator dynamics but carries information pertaining to the tracking angle and the standing - wave parameters when it arrives at the resonator output port . a forcing voltage causes forces to be applied to the resonator and thereby affects the dynamics of the resonator and the standing - wave parameters . the driving voltages applied to the housing electrodes are brought together into a single resonator signal as a result of being transmitted through the housing - electrode - resonator - electrode capacitances to the resonator output port . in order to extract the standing - wave orientation angle , the excitation and forcing voltages are designed to be separable by appropriate operations performed on the resonator signal .