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STABLE INERTIAL PLATFORM [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Flight Instruments and Equipment (Aeroindustry)
  • Aircraft Piloting and Navigation
  • Navigation Instruments
DEF

A platform that is controlled in inertial space by gyroscopic means.

CONT

IRS. Inertial reference system. Navigation. Equipment that determines aircraft position by sensing aircraft accelerations with a gyrostabilized platform and provides the information to the RNAV [Area navigation] equipment or FMS [flight management system].

CONT

Inertial Navigation System (INS) ... Velocity and distance are computed from sensed acceleration. Two accelerometers, gyro stabilized, are mounted in a gimbal assembly commonly called the platform ... The gyro stabilized platform on which the two accelerometers are mounted is kept level with respect to the earth (rather than fixed in space) by a compensating mechanism that allows for the fact that the earth is rotating and that it is round.

Key term(s)
  • gyro-stabilized platform

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et équipement de bord (Constructions aéronautiques)
  • Pilotage et navigation aérienne
  • Instruments de navigation
DEF

[...] plan matériel qui reste parfaitement horizontal et d'orientation connue quelles que soient les conditions extérieures.

CONT

Comment stabiliser un solide (plate-forme)? : Précisément au niveau des axes des anneaux supplémentaires, on peut mesurer les rotations infinitésimales du solide par rapport aux gyros fixes par rapport aux étoiles. La détection d'un écart angulaire traitée par un asservissement adéquat, commandera l'action d'un moteur qui annulera l'écart angulaire. Ainsi les axes plate-forme resteront toujours alignés sur ceux des gyros. C'est la notion de plate-forme stabilisée.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme stabilisée gyroscopiquement
  • plateforme stabilisée par gyroscopes
  • plateforme gyrostabilisée
  • plate-forme stabilisée par gyroscopes
  • plateforme gyrostabilisée

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