angular accelerometer
angular accelerometer
[′aŋ·gyə·lər ak‚sel·ə′räm·əd·ər] (engineering)
An accelerometer that measures the rate of change of angular velocity between two objects under observation.
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From the point of view of technical implementation and high accuracy attainability in finding the geographic north heading, a better option is a well-known method based on the direct finding of Earth angular velocity vector by means of an
angular accelerometer rotating about the axis orthogonal to the sensitivity axis of that accelerometer.
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