Cruise Ship Gyroscope

Controlled by a gyroscope.

Cruise ship gyroscope. On the largest cruise ships you. The gyro compass consists of a fast-rotating disk usually positioned in a gimbal. It is a non-magnetic compass oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the earth and thus indicates the north-south direction.

The poster claims that this pool table was a cruise ship called Radiance of the Seas on its way back from New Zealand last December. This model can simulate the boats performance both in land and water modes respectively. Fixed fins and bilge keels do not move.

It is in one way a sort of maritime rocket sciencethis type of gyroscopic stabilizer called a Control Moment Gyroscope is also used for spacecraft attitude control systems. Im not Shure if theyre used on giant cruise ships or not but gyros are one way of providing stability and safety. The highlight of early ship gyro-stabilization was likely the installation of a Sperry gyro aboard the Italian luxury cruise ship Conto Di Savoia in 1932.

From the video description. This is a video taken by a friend of the Gyroscopic self leveling pool table on the cruise ship Radiance of the Seas while travelling back from New Zeala. Just step aboard a Seakeeper-equipped boat and feel.

Gyroscopes were first used to control a ships roll in the late 1920s and early 1930s for warships and then passenger liners. Table has some kind of sensor to detect its position and some kind of actuator in this case a gyroscope that can exert forces on the table. Velocity of ship and gyro are the state vectors tilting moment is the input and the angle of ship and gyro are defined as output vectors.

Follow answered Oct 19 16 at 1415. Active fins are controlled by a gyroscopic control systemWhen the gyroscope senses the ship roll it changes the fins angle of attack to exert force to counteract the roll. As seen on Royal Caribbean Brilliance of The Seas cruise shipRevolutionary Pool Table adjusts at the speed of light to offset any ship m.