Accession Number:
ADD010623
Title:
Guidance Computer.
Descriptive Note:
Patent
Corporate Author:
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1983-09-20
Pagination or Media Count:
65.0
Abstract:
A digital computer for guiding the flight of a ballistic missile through the instrumentation of a Q Matrix. The computer may be described as being the digital counterpart of a mechanical differential analyzer in that is made up of a number of appropriately interconnected integrators which generate the solution of the particular equation or set of equations being solved. An initial value of velocity-to-be-gained is inserted into the computer and then by means of accelerometer outputs, multipliers, adders and integrators, samples of the missiles velocity are compared with the velocity-to-be gained to generate output signals to control or guide the trajectory of the missile during its powered flight. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Guided Missiles