{"id":256,"date":"2016-03-28T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/?p=256"},"modified":"2016-04-11T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T10:00:13","slug":"simulating-a-stabilisation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/simulating-a-stabilisation-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulating a Stabilisation System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to create an application to produce two simulations. Each simulation would be of a rocket that has a moment due to the centre of mass not being quite on the main axis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the first simulation there is no guidance system<\/li>\n<li>The second has an active guidance system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The guidance system&#8217;s sole purpose is to reduce rotational speed. It does not attempt to keep the rocket pointed &#8216;up&#8217;.\u00a0 [We do envisage at some point, some attempt will be made to have a stabilisation system that can attempt to counter the drift in direction of the rocket].<\/p>\n<p>The video simulations are best watched in full-screen mode as the rocket is quite small. It is small because we positioned the viewing platform a large distance from the rocket, so we could get a good view of the majority of its launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yIxwe_BwxXo\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_B8IN21i6nI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The specifications of the rocket are:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engine<\/strong>: Single D engine<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rockt Length<\/strong>: 584mm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Mass<\/strong>: 221 grams<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidance System<\/strong>: KATE [Kinetic Attitude Thrust Engine]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location of Guidance System<\/strong>: 250mm from tail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The code that was used to produce this simulation is freely available at:-<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/github.com\/joeman155\/JJROCKET_SIMULATIONS<\/p>\n<h2>The KATE System<\/h2>\n<p>The is the name that has been given to the system to provide stabilisation. It will be described in detail in future posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to create an application to produce two simulations. Each simulation would be of a rocket that has a moment due to the centre of mass not being quite on the main axis In the first simulation there is no guidance system The second has an active guidance system. The guidance system&#8217;s sole purpose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/simulating-a-stabilisation-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simulating a Stabilisation System<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}