Authors
Aerospace Research Institute
Abstract
The paper presents a kinematical model for a random positioning system which simulates microgravity conditions on the ground. The random positioning system contains two frames, with an experiment platform. The frames are rotated around two perpendicular axes by a random angular velocity that it causes continuous changes in the orientation of experimental sample relative to the gravity’s vector. The angular velocity between random values is changed based on specific function in order to limit the generated spurious acceleration below a preselected threshold. The kinematical model yields criteria to evaluate the microgravity conditions on ground base. Such criteria are defined based on the mean values of acceleration and gravity components which are sensed by the rotating experimental sample.
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