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  2. Digital read out - Wikipedia

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    In machine-shop terminology, the complete digital read-out system (consisting of a computer, axis-position encoders, and a numeric display) is referred to by the acronym DRO. Such a system is commonly fitted to machines in today's shops, especially for metal working — lathes, cylindrical grinders, milling machines, surface grinders, boring ...

  3. List of orbits - Wikipedia

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    Stability means that satellites in DRO do not need to use station keeping propellant to stay in orbit. The lunar DRO is a high lunar orbit with a radius of approximately 61,500 km. [24] This was proposed [by whom?] in 2017 as a possible orbit for the Lunar Gateway space station, outside Earth-Moon L1 and L2. [20]

  4. Linear encoder - Wikipedia

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    Many linear encoders include built-in limit switches; either optical or magnetic. Two limit switches are frequently included such that on power-up the controller can determine if the encoder is at an end-of-travel and in which direction to drive the axis.

  5. Distant retrograde orbit - Wikipedia

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    In more general terms, an object of negligible mass can be in a DRO around the smaller body of any two-body system, such as planet–Sun or exoplanet–star. Using the example of a spacecraft in a DRO around a moon, the craft would orbit in the direction opposite to the direction in which the moon orbits the planet.

  6. Optical comparator - Wikipedia

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    A J&L comparator with a DRO. Profile projector, also known as contour comparator, is widely used to measure 2-dimensional data. An optical comparator (often called just a comparator in context) or profile projector is a device that applies the principles of optics to the inspection of manufactured parts.

  7. Coordinate-measuring machine - Wikipedia

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    Other probes were ground to specific shapes, for example a quadrant, to enable measurement of special features. These probes were physically held against the workpiece with the position in space being read from a 3-axis digital readout (DRO) or, in more advanced systems, being logged into a computer by means of a footswitch or similar device.

  8. Axes conventions - Wikipedia

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    [3] By contrast, in case of air and sea vehicles like submarines, ships, airplanes etc., which use the NED-system (North-East-Down) as external reference (World frame), the vehicle's (body's) positive y- or pitch axis always points to its right, and its positive z- or yaw axis always points down. World frame's origin is fixed at the center of ...

  9. Near-rectilinear halo orbit - Wikipedia

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    A halo orbit is a periodic, three-dimensional orbit associated with one of the L 1, L 2 and L 3 Lagrange points. Near-rectilinear means that some segments of the orbit have a greater curvature than those of an elliptical orbit of the same maximum diameter, and other segments have a curvature less than that of an elliptical orbit of the same ...