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'[EE]: Looking for method to differentiategravityfr'
2005\08\31@163557
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Mchipguru
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IOf you use a 3 axis device and do the math it will work. Think vectors. At rest the system will measure a 1 G down. When breaking a breaking acceleration will be added in as another vector so you should be able to remove the 1 G and get a resultant vector.Team 190 from WPI did that a few years ago on their First robot when we put in an inertial navigation system.
Larry
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> From: "David Van Horn" <spam_OUTdvanhornTakeThisOuT
microbrix.com>
> Date: 2005/08/31 Wed PM 04:21:45 EDT
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <.....piclistKILLspam
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> Subject: RE: [EE]: Looking for method to differentiate gravityfromacceleration
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> > 2) If the car is on a banked surface then the device may think the car
> > is going downhill since the perpendicular will read less than 1G. In
> > this case the light would not come on if you did brake slowly. A
> > three axis accelerometer would remedy this. Might only matter at the
> > race track and some highway entrance and exit ramps.
>
> Would it work in San Francisco?
>
> :)
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'[EE]: Looking for method to differentiategravityfr'
2005\09\01@074710
by
Gordon LaPoint
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:26, David Van Horn wrote:
> Well, if you manage to exceed 1G on a flat road, let me know. :)
>
AAFD class drag race cars do .25 mile standing start in about 4.7
seconds, reaching a peak speed of >300MPH, exceeding 4G for some of the
race, on a flat road.
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Gordon - N1MGO
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2005\09\01@091236
by
Russell McMahon
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> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:26, David Van Horn wrote:
>> Well, if you manage to exceed 1G on a flat road, let me know. :)
> AAFD class drag race cars do .25 mile standing start in about 4.7
> seconds, reaching a peak speed of >300MPH, exceeding 4G for some of
> the
> race, on a flat road.
True enoughish.
But they are 'glued' to the track surface with a very special
expensive dynamic glue. It's stored as a solid on the surface of the
big black round things that you see on either side at the back. It's
converted to semi liquid glue at the surface layer shortly before
'launch' and during the very few seconds that it is required to glue
the car dynamically to the track by application of heat, generally
applied by the engine causing friction between the glue dispensers and
the track surface. Said glue sticks aka tyres are rather expensive and
don't last many races. Suitable dispensers for road use tend to be far
cheaper and are usually not used in this mode - classic friction is
generally easier on the tyres. Some road vehicles can sometimes manage
more than 1g either accelerating or under brakes - but it takes lots
of good design, good equipment, skill and luck.
RM
2005\09\01@094342
by
David Van Horn
> > Well, if you manage to exceed 1G on a flat road, let me know. :)
> >
> AAFD class drag race cars do .25 mile standing start in about 4.7
> seconds, reaching a peak speed of >300MPH, exceeding 4G for some of
the
> race, on a flat road.
Sort of makes my point.. Aerodynamics, ground effects, and huge engines
required, which you won't find on the family grocery getter, or even the
local "2-fast-2-furious" machines.
2005\09\01@094907
by
Howard Winter
Russell,
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:55:10 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
> Some road vehicles can sometimes manage more than 1g either accelerating or under brakes
Far more under the latter than the former...
> - but it takes lots of good design, good equipment, skill and luck.
Actually any reasonably good modern car should be able to manage 1g braking - I can't remember what the MOT
tests here specify as a minimum, but I think it's 0.3g - below that it fails the test as unsafe, so it's
expected that most cars will be well above this.
Cheers,
Howard Winter
St.Albans, England
2005\09\01@172242
by
Alex Harford
It's too bad people have seemed to miss this post because I think
that's the only solution for a stand-alone device.
On 8/31/05, .....mchipguruKILLspam
.....charter.net <EraseMEmchipguruspam_OUT
TakeThisOuTcharter.net> wrote:
> IOf you use a 3 axis device and do the math it will work. Think vectors. At rest the system will measure a 1 G down. When breaking a breaking acceleration will be added in as another vector so you should be able to remove the 1 G and get a resultant vector.Team 190 from WPI did that a few years ago on their First robot when we put in an inertial navigation system.
> Larry
2005\09\02@010901
by
Russell McMahon
> Actually any reasonably good modern car should be able to manage 1g
> braking
Not consistently throughout a whole braking manoeuvre without great
care in design. Being able to lock up the wheels is only the first
step. Stopping them doing it is the second and harder step. Well
designed ABS helps. Without such weight transfer between wheels will
leave the lightened wheel locking and the one with more weight on it
not braking as hard as it could.
RM
2005\09\02@041754
by
Russell McMahon
>>>>I'd suggest trying rate of change of velocity.
>>>What a great idea! And here we were all wasting time talking about
>>>measuring accelleration.
>>One could reasonably infer, with a prospect of being in error, that
>>he meant rate of rate of change, which may well be useful.
> Jerk.
Whether the effect of the magnitude of the second differential of
velocity was sensed as a jerk would depend on whether the rate of rate
of velocity change varied extremely rapidly, as in a panic stop, or
whether the first differential of the deceleration has a more gradual
slope as when eg one starts off braking gently and then gradually
increases the braking as the gap shortens more rapidly than may have
been intended, which of course only applies if one drives that way, as
some jerks do.
R :-) M
2005\09\02@105625
by
Howard Winter
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:06:07 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
I had said:
> > Actually any reasonably good modern car should be able to manage 1g
> > braking
>
> Not consistently throughout a whole braking manoeuvre without great
> care in design. Being able to lock up the wheels is only the first
> step. Stopping them doing it is the second and harder step. Well
> designed ABS helps. Without such weight transfer between wheels will
> leave the lightened wheel locking and the one with more weight on it
> not braking as hard as it could.
I was sort-of assuming that any reasonably good modern car would have ABS, since my midrange ten-year-old one
has it!
Cheers,
Howard Winter
St.Albans, England
2005\09\02@161158
by
Peter
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Russell McMahon wrote:
>> Actually any reasonably good modern car should be able to manage 1g braking
>
> Not consistently throughout a whole braking manoeuvre without great care in
> design. Being able to lock up the wheels is only the first step. Stopping
> them doing it is the second and harder step. Well designed ABS helps. Without
> such weight transfer between wheels will leave the lightened wheel locking
> and the one with more weight on it not braking as hard as it could.
http://www.4xclub.co.za/TyreABC.htm
Highest listed coefficient is 0.9 . How do you make it 1.0 ? I suppose
that with 'glue' tyres (dragster) at low speed and with aerodynamics
(pushing down on aerofoils) at high speed you could go a little beyond
1G for a short time. What am I missing.
Peter
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