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  2. Gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    So the rotor possesses three degrees of rotational freedom and its axis possesses two. The rotor responds to a force applied to the input axis by a reaction force to the output axis. A gyroscope flywheel will roll or resist about the output axis depending upon whether the output gimbals are of a free or fixed configuration.

  3. Vibrating structure gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    A vibrating structure gyroscope (VSG), defined by the IEEE as a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG), [1] is a gyroscope that uses a vibrating (as opposed to rotating) structure as its orientation reference. A vibrating structure gyroscope functions much like the halteres of flies (insects in the order Diptera).

  4. Rotordynamics - Wikipedia

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    Rotordynamics (or rotor dynamics) is a specialized branch of applied mechanics concerned with the behavior and diagnosis of rotating structures. It is commonly used to analyze the behavior of structures ranging from jet engines and steam turbines to auto engines and computer disk storage .

  5. List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical ...

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    Audio Control Panel ACR Avionic Communication Router ACS 1: Airman Certification Standards [4] FAA pilot testing ACS 2: Audio control system ACU 1: Air condition unit ACU 2: Alternator control unit [2] Protection from alternator over-voltage. AD Airworthiness Directive: ADA Advisory area ADAHRS Air data attitude heading reference system ADC Air ...

  6. Control moment gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    A control moment gyroscope (CMG) is an attitude control device generally used in spacecraft attitude control systems. A CMG consists of a spinning rotor and one or more motorized gimbals that tilt the rotor’s angular momentum. As the rotor tilts, the changing angular momentum causes a gyroscopic torque that rotates the spacecraft. [1] [2]

  7. Ring laser gyroscope - Wikipedia

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    A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) consists of a ring laser having two independent counter-propagating resonant modes over the same path; the difference in phase is used to detect rotation. It operates on the principle of the Sagnac effect which shifts the nulls of the internal standing wave pattern in response to angular rotation.

  8. Anti-rolling gyro - Wikipedia

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    The ship gyroscopic stabilizer typically operates by constraining the gyroscope's roll axis and allowing it to "precess" either in the pitch or the yaw axes. Allowing it to precess as the ship rolls causes its spinning rotor to generate a counteracting roll stabilizing moment to that generated by the waves on the ship's hull.

  9. Pitcairn PCA-2 - Wikipedia

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    It had a conventional design for its day – an airplane-like fuselage with two open cockpits in tandem, and an engine mounted tractor-fashion in the nose. [2] The lift by the four-blade main rotor was augmented by stubby, low-set monoplane wings that also carried the control surfaces. [ 2 ]