Model testing of stabilising and tracking control system in main battle tank

The subject of discussion is a tank gun stabiliser (in azimuth and elevation). For the investigation of the considered control system one applied a method of computer simulations. The mathematical model and its numerical implementation were experimentally verified. The results of experimental and model simulation investigations showed that the mathematical model and its numerical implementation were worked-out correctly. Using the verified mathematical model of the system, the simulation investigations of the influence of regulation potentiometers settlings on stabilisation exactness and transient processes quality were carried-out. The possibilities of improving performance characteristics of the stabiliser via altering of feedback’s gain coefficients as well as the influence of disturbing inputs amplitude and frequency (propagated from the hull on the gun and turret) on stabilisation exactness of a given position were also analysed. The presented technique is quite general and may be applied to any type of vehicle to study dynamic effects of several rigid bodies, which move relative to each other (when displacements are small) and are connected by constraint equations.