• A Rate integrating gyroscope is a rate gyro with a built in integrator. It is usually a component of an Inertial Measurement Unit or a stabilization system...
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  • Gyroscope may also refer to: Ring laser gyroscope, uses ring lasers Fibre optic gyroscope, uses fibre optics and light interference Rate integrating gyroscope...
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    A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular...
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  • be adapted for use as a rate gyro to measure a rate of angular movement. Rate gyros are used in rate integrating gyroscopes, and in attitude control...
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  • A vibrating structure gyroscope (VSG), defined by the IEEE as a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG), is a gyroscope that uses a vibrating (as opposed to...
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    hemispherical resonator gyroscope (HRG), also called wine-glass gyroscope or mushroom gyro, is a compact, low-noise, high-performance angular rate or rotation sensor...
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    Inertial measurement units (IMUs) typically contain three orthogonal rate-gyroscopes and three orthogonal accelerometers, measuring angular velocity and...
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    six wing tanks. An autopilot used a Rate integrating gyroscope for directional control. The rate integrating gyroscope could be pre-programmed to turn the...
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  • PIGA (Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer) is a type of accelerometer that can measure acceleration and simultaneously integrates this acceleration...
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    body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation of the body, using a combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes, and sometimes magnetometers...
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    contractor for the GAM-72. Guidance components were built by Summers Gyroscope and the countermeasures equipment by Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation. The...
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  • Angular rate sensors, ARS, are devices that directly measure angular rate, without integration in conditioning electronics. Gyroscopes also measure angular...
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    printers, and accelerometers and MEMS gyroscopes used to deploy automobile airbags. Since the early 2000s, the integration of optical functionality (optical...
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    (Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity) sensors and consist of either solid-state or microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gyroscopes, accelerometers and...
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    (pitch) gyroscopes to sense the gyro platform's divergence from its original orientation in pitch, yaw and roll, - and more crucially derived the rate of divergence...
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  • vector. The spinning electron model here is analogous to a gyroscope. For any rotating body the rate of change of the angular momentum J {\displaystyle \mathbf...
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    steadily at astronomical targets. HST has six of these rate-sensing gyroscopes installed. Three gyroscopes are normally required for operation; observations...
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    induction Modally tuned impact hammers Null-balance Optical Pendulous integrating gyroscopic accelerometer (PIGA) Piezoelectric accelerometer Quantum (rubidium...
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    dual-axis tuning fork gyroscope, and a single-axis gyroscope which can determine rotational motion. The information captured by the angular rate sensor can then...
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    accuracy SAGEM Sigma-95 integrated global positioning system and ring laser gyroscope inertial navigation system. Sukhoi Su-30MKA has electronic counter-measure...
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    fiberglass material. The rocket was stabilized by a 40 kg (88 lb) 3 axes gyroscope system in the nose, supplied by Kreiselgeräte GmbH. The rocket could not...
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    laser Ring Gyroscope-driven INS, installing dual Multifunction Control Display Units (MFCDUs) (vice one in the Group II) and integrating GPS into the...
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    positioning system and ring laser gyroscope inertial navigation system. Phase 3 of further development of the MKI, will integrate avionic systems being developed...
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    {m\omega ^{2}r}{mg}}.} Cancelling the m {\displaystyle m} on both sides, integrating, and setting h = 0 {\displaystyle h=0} when r = 0 {\displaystyle r=0}...
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    inch 1080 x 2400 resolution punch hole display screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate. The screen can get as bright as 1200 nits and supports displaying 1 billion...
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  • V-1 during World War II. The navigation system consisted of a simple gyroscope, an airspeed sensor, and an altimeter. The guidance instructions were...
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    demonstrate the Earth's rotation, similar to the Foucault pendulum and to gyroscope devices. Arthur Compton (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927) published it...
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  • PCs. Windows 8 surpassed Windows Vista in market share, with a 5.1% usage rate, according to numbers posted in July 2013 by Net Applications, with usage...
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    tail fins which spin as the missile flies through the air, providing gyroscopic stabilization. The AIM-9 uses a passive infrared proximity fuze to detonate...
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    Additional sensors integrated into the Watch include an accelerometer, gyroscope, and barometer, which are used to determine device orientation, user movement...
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