inertial platform


Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to inertial platform: inertial guidance

inertial platform

n.
The sensing devices used in inertial guidance and the platform on which they are mounted.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
centrale inertielle
References in periodicals archive ?
To construct SPIRE, Doc's team at the MIT Instrument Laboratory designed an inertial platform using three single-degree-of-ffeedom gyros tha.t the lab had developed for improved accuracy.
Origins of inertial navigation
Part of the material is adapted from his doctoral dissertation, but much is from his lecture notes for a one-semester graduate course in inertial navigation systems for students who were already adept in classical mechanics, kinematics, inertial instrument theory, and inertial platform mechanization.
Inertial navigation systems analysis
To develop new technologies, the project proposes a prototype of inertial platform equipped with complex systems of underwater and over terrestrial scanning which can be mounted on a boat and also on a land motor vehicle, and validating the performances of the new mixed soil water technologies--as an alternative to unique functional airy, land or sea solutions.
Innovative technology of maritime and terrestrial scanning for digital modelling of the relief
Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?