Inertial stabilizer system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJason Scott Lee, Thomas S. Mazzeo
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Abstract
The illustrative embodiments provide a method and apparatus for stabilizing an electronic rack structure. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises an enclosure with a user interface panel. The apparatus also comprises a gyroscope, sensor system and controller attached within an enclosure. A sensor system associated with the gyroscope is capable of detecting a tilt of an electronic rack structure. A controller is also located within the enclosure and is capable of detecting the tilt of the electronic rack structure and controlling an orientation of the gyroscope to counter the tilt of the electronic rack structure in response to detecting the tilt. In another illustrative embodiment, a method for stabilizing an electronic rack structure is provided.
Claims6
A method for stabilizing an electronic rack structure, the method comprising:
- operating an inertial stabilizer system attached to the electronic rack structure by calculating a rotor spin speed in response to receiving a plurality of inputs, determining a required energy level to maintain the rotor spin speed, determining whether a power supply associated with a gyroscope within the inertial stabilizer system is charged, determining whether a failure is occurring in an operation of the gyroscope, and determining whether a rotor is spinning at a calculated rotor spin speed;
- monitoring the electronic rack structure using a sensor system embodied in the inertial stabilizer system to determine a change in a center of gravity of the electronic rack structure;
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- changing an orientation of the gyroscope within the inertial stabilizer system to generate a force to oppose the change in the center of gravity.
A computer program product comprising a computer-readable-recordable storage medium storing program code for using an inertial stabilizer system to stabilize an electronic rack structure, the computer program product comprising:
- program code, stored on the computer-readable-recordable storage medium, for calculating a rotor spin speed, responsive to receiving a plurality of inputs;
- program code, stored on the computer-readable-recordable storage medium, for determining a required energy level to maintain the rotor spin speed;
- program code, stored on the computer-readable-recordable storage medium, for determining whether a power supply associated with the inertial stabilizer system is sufficiently charged;
- program code, stored on the computer-readable-recordable storage medium, for determining whether a failure is occurring in an operation of the inertial stabilizer system;
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- program code, stored on the computer-readable-recordable storage medium, for determining whether a rotor of the inertial stabilizer system is spinning at a calculated rotor spin speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.