Anthony Lawrence

Modern Inertial Technology

Navigation, Guidance, and Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mechanical Engineering, an engineering discipline borne of the needs of the in dustrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound issues of pro ductivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions, among others. The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and research mono graphs intended to address the need for information in contemporary areas of me chanical engineering. The series is conceived as a comprehensive one that covers a broad range of concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate education and re search. We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of consulting editors on the advisory board, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The names of the consulting editors are listed on the next page of this volume. The areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamic systemsand control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing, ther mal science, and tribology. I am pleased to present this volume in the Series: Modern Inertial Technology: Navigation, Guidance, and Control, Second Edition, by Anthony Lawrence. The selection of this volume underscores again the interest of the Mechanical Engi neering series to provide our readers with topical monographs as well as graduate texts in a wide variety of fields.

Produktdetails

• Mechanical Engineering Series
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-7258-8
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781461272588
• ISBN-10: 1461272580
• Artikelnr.: 37479534

Autorenporträt

Automatic navigation makes travel safer: Unless they malfunction, machines are tireless and always vigilant. Long in use in ships and airplanes, automatic navigational devices are also coming into use for ground transportation as well. This book discusses the sensors (gyroscopes and accelerometers) used in navigational systems that cannot depend on external data for determining the speed and position.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Outline of Inertial Navigation.- 2. Gyro and Accelerometer Errors and Their Consequences.- 3. The Principles of Accelerometers.- 4. The Pendulous Accelerometer.- 5. Vibrating Beam Accelerometers.- 6. The Principles of Mechanical Gyroscopes.- 7. Single-Degree-of-Freedom Gyroscopes.- 8. Two-Degree-of-Freedom Gyroscopes.- 9. The Dynamically Tuned Gyroscope.- 10. Vibrating Gyroscopes.- 11. The Principles of Optical Rotation Sensing.- 12. The Interferometric Fiber-Optic Gyro.- 13. The Ring Laser Gyro.- 14. Passive Resonant Gyros.- 15. Testing Inertial Sensors.- 16. Design Choices for Inertial Instruments.