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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1965
Eldon C Hall, Wollaston, MA (US);
Harold H Seward, Arlington, MA (US);
Joseph D Sabo, Arlington, MA (US);
Vincent R De Marco, Reading, MA (US);
Millard B Prisant, Bayside, NY (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A digital computer for guiding the flight of a ballistic missile through instrumentation of a Q Matrix. The computer may be described as being the digital counterpart of a mechanical differential analyzer in that it is made up of a number of appropriately interconnected integrators which generate the solution of the particular equation or set of equations being solved. An initial value of velocity-to-be-gained is inserted into the computer and then by means of accelerometer outputs, multipliers, adders and integrators, samples of the missile's velocity are compared with the velocity-to-be-gained to generate output signals to control or guide the trajectory of the missile during its powered flight.