Challenging ultra high vibration levels
Isolating an IMU from harsh environments
A challenge was accepted: how can you isolate an IMU from ultra high vibration without damaging key factors like bandwidth or cross coupling alignment? Special isolators were designed for suspending the IMU, so most vibration effects were eliminated. After numerous successful tests, the IMU was fully qualified. Thousands of units were produced with over 10 successful batch qualifications.
MR-SAM
Medium Range Surface to Air Missile.
Challenge
An IMU had to be designed to withstand 100 g RMS vibration levels.
Solution
Special vibration isolators were chosen. The system was fully suspended and isolated from the vibration with no specification degradation.
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Case Study