SURVEY OF PRECISION ROTARY TABLES,

This report was generated to satisfy a need for a survey of commercially available precision optical and mechanical rotary tables. The rotary tables catalogued and described here are frequently used as laboratory test platforms for the calibration and test of precision inertial components such as navigational gyroscopes and accelerometers of the type employed in missile and space vehicle development. Data are here tabulated on four basic types of rotary tables, plus a tilting rotary table modified for sidereal rate of rotation. Information includes such items as type, manufacturers cost, and method of readout. The brief concluding section may be found useful to anyone having to select a table for these applications.