INSTRUMENTATION FOR MEASUREMENT OF VESTIBULAR-SIGNIFICANT FORCES IN HELICOPTERS.

Abstract

The report describes an airborne instrumentation system developed at minimal cost from standard, commercially available components for the in-flight acquisition and storage of helicopter low-frequency motion data pertinent to the investigation of vestibular-related pilot disorientation. System components provided to measure and record the instantaneous triaxial linear acceleration and instantaneous triaxial angular velocity of the aircraft at a given crew station include three potentiometer readout linear accelerometers, three similar gimballess rate gyros, six signal-conditioning amplifiers, and a 7-channel, battery-powered, IRIG-compatible, magnetic tape recorder. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0670230

Entities

People

  • Jorma I. Niven
  • W. Carroll Hixson

Organizations

  • Naval Aerospace Medical Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerometers
  • Acquisition
  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Amplifiers
  • Electronic Recording Systems
  • Frequency
  • Helicopters
  • Instrumentation
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Potentiometers
  • Recording Systems
  • Standards
  • Tape Recorders

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.