Abstract
This paper presents the results of experimental investigations of a precision sensor for an automatic weapons stabilizer system. It also describes the experimental equipment used and the structure of the developed sensor. A weapons stabilizer is designed for automatic guidance of an armament unit in the horizontal and vertical planes when firing at ground and air targets that are quickly maneuvering, and at lower speeds when firing anti-tank missiles, as well as the bypass of construction elements by the armament unit, and the automatic tracking of moving targets when interacting with a fire control system. The results of experimental investigations have shown that the error of the precision sensor developed on the basis of a piezoelectric element is 6 × 10−10 m/s2 under quasi-static conditions, and ~10−5 m/s2 for mobile use. This paper defines metrological and calibration properties of the developed sensor.
Highlights
Weapons stabilizer is an automatic control system that provides combat vehicles with weapon targeting and stabilization in the target fire direction during oscillation of a moving armoured vehicle (AV) [1]
Oscillations in the longitudinal plane, changing the angle of gun elevation, and angular oscillations in the horizontal plane, changing the traverse [3]. This leads to a significant displacement of the aiming mark towards the target and does not allow the gunner to keep it on target even with the most advanced power drives
To increase the effectiveness of fire on the move, all modern combat vehicles are equipped with a special automatic device referred to as a weapons stabilizer system (WSS) [6]
Summary
Weapons stabilizer is an automatic control system that provides combat vehicles with weapon targeting and stabilization in the target fire direction during oscillation of a moving armoured vehicle (AV) [1]. Lateral angular oscillations causing gun trunnion tilt have less impact, but increase with an extension of the firing range. To increase the effectiveness of fire on the move, all modern combat vehicles are equipped with a special automatic device referred to as a weapons stabilizer system (WSS) [6]. Providing the accuracy improvement of measuring the mobile object’s acceleration, such as those used in a weapons stabilization system (WSS), is a great challenge [6]. The urgent scientific and technical challenge is to improve the accuracy and speed of response when measuring the acceleration values by experimental investigations of a piezoelectric. 2 of of response when measuring the acceleration values by experimental investigations of a piezoelectric sensor (PS) for the automatic weapons stabilization system [9,10,11].
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