High Speed Gimbal

Capability demonstration of a novel gimbal concept featuring a two-degree-of-freedom singularity-free motion mechanism. Angular displacement of 180° is covered in less than 200ms by a decoupling controller that follows the shortest trajectory arc between any two points within the operating range.
More info at: sofka.org/portf...

[@kinematicmarvel]

The design is most suitable for sensor (e.g. visible/IR imager) payload positioning at high speeds and over a wide angular range. One such application is target tracking with full-hemisphere continuous coverage (without gimbal lock). A tracking demo video is viewable on this channel.

[@Jimmyczech1]

just beautiful

[@kinematicmarvel]

Yes, maximum slew rate is 1600°/s, maximum acceleration 20000°/s^2.

[@habotssar8429]

that is it fucking fast!!

[@dragonskinstudio]

awesome work there!

[@Aeriallive]

That's looking really really great! Amazing speed. What is the weight of that gimbal and will anything like that will come on the market?

[@RustyNex]

oh wow thats incredible! what kind of weight can that system take?

[@boarattackboar]

awsome. its like a sparows head

[@TR7H]

That is cool! Just one question: what the hell do I do with it?

[@InsideOutElectronics]

Very impressive !!! Any info on servos? What are they ? Or can you suggest any other servo with similar capabilities ? Thank you.

[@jamestmather]

Great! Is this commercially available?
Thanks

[@gumeinasai]

I'm having hard time making CAD model of this. Base part has rotary joint with tilt angle around 20°. Next part connected to it is non trivial (some sort of twisting involved). Is this correct? User amirnasher asked about servos.
Is this patented or patent pending?

[@MegaALVIGO]

Which institute is the director of this project?

[@thisiskarlwetherby]

Holy crap is that in real time?

[@normellow]

It should be powder coated candy apple red =p

[@repalmore]

Talk about whip pans.

[@normellow]

HFS !!!

[@RocketBurn11]

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