Gyroscopic Testing of Accelerometers to Determine Coning Angle

摘要

An experiment was performed to determine how accurately accelerometers could measure the coning angle of a spinning and coning laboratory gyroscope. Tests showed that coning angle measurements were well within expected results. The accelerometer can be used with or in place of the yawsonde for determination of flight stability of spin-stabilized projectiles. Keywords: Gyroscope, Comparison, Yawsonde, Accelerometers. (JHD)