Simulation and Adaptive Control of the Motion of a Gyroscopically Mounted Camera for Filming from a Helicopter

Introduction

This project is a predecessor project of the project dealing with smart product modeling of physical systems. The technologies used in both projects are identical. Only the applications are different.

The project dealt with the development of control software for the stabilization of a movie camera that films movie scenes from a helicopter. The project was financed by Flying Pictures, Inc., a company located in Hollywood.

During the shootings, the camera must be held motionless, although the helicopter, from which the movie scene is being shot, invariably vibrates. To this end, the camera had to be gyroscopically mounted, so that the vibrations could not spread from the helicopter to the camera.

Most Important Publications

  1. McBride, R.T. and F.E. Cellier (2001), A Bond-graph Representation of a Two-gimbal Gyroscope, Proc. ICBGM’01, 5th SCS Intl. Conf. on Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation, Phoenix, Arizona, pp. 305-312.

  2. McBride, R.T. and F.E. Cellier (2003), Object-oriented Bond Graph Modeling of a Gyroscopically Stabilized Camera Platform, Proc. ICBGM’03, 6th SCS Intl. Conf. on Bond Graph Modeling and Simulation, Orlando, Florida, pp. 223-230.

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