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: "Apropos "guidance", is anyone more comfortable than I in doing a mathematical introduction to inertial guidance?" | : "Apropos "guidance", is anyone more comfortable than I in doing a mathematical introduction to inertial guidance?" | ||
What do you mean by that? To determine the path you need the velocity (direction of movement and value) at every moment (and the geometry of the space, if it is not simply the Euclidean space). --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 21:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC) | What do you mean by that? To determine the path you need the velocity (direction of movement and value) at every moment (and the geometry of the space, if it is not simply the Euclidean space). --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 21:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
:But accelerometers do not directly give velocity, and real-world inertial guidance systems have substantial error correction, either through gimballing or additional gyros with strapdown. It's not trivial to explain what the six gyros in a typical ring laser unit are doing. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 21:29, 4 March 2010 (UTC) | |||
:: My answer was a mathematical one. I told you what is needed. How you measure it is your problem :-) | |||
:: I do not know if I can help. But what would you need? --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 21:36, 4 March 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Guidance
Howard, elsewhere you ask:
- "Apropos "guidance", is anyone more comfortable than I in doing a mathematical introduction to inertial guidance?"
What do you mean by that? To determine the path you need the velocity (direction of movement and value) at every moment (and the geometry of the space, if it is not simply the Euclidean space). --Peter Schmitt 21:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- But accelerometers do not directly give velocity, and real-world inertial guidance systems have substantial error correction, either through gimballing or additional gyros with strapdown. It's not trivial to explain what the six gyros in a typical ring laser unit are doing. Howard C. Berkowitz 21:29, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- My answer was a mathematical one. I told you what is needed. How you measure it is your problem :-)
- I do not know if I can help. But what would you need? --Peter Schmitt 21:36, 4 March 2010 (UTC)