guidance system
Automated steering mechanism
A guidance system is a device or set of components that steers something toward a target or along a planned path.
The term applies most often to missiles, rockets, and spacecraft: The missile's guidance system locked onto the heat signature.
Guidance systems may use GPS, inertial navigation, radar, or other technologies to make continuous course corrections.
Satellite-based location technology
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- sonarUnderwater detection by echoes
- LIDARLight-based distance measurement
- inertialRelating to resistance to change
gyroscope · autopilot · avionics · tracking · telemetry · waypoint · trajectory · homing
Input-detecting device
- actuatorDevice producing controlled motion
- servomechanismFeedback-controlled automatic mechanism
- stabilizerThing ensuring steadiness
- feedback loopSelf-modifying cyclical process
algorithm · thruster · attitude control · closed-loop · error correction · input · output · calibration
Guiding others to improve
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- adviceGuidance on decisions
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- protégéPerson guided by expert
tutoring · apprenticeship · role model · wisdom · support · development · empowerment · growth
GPS
Satellite-based location technology
- radarRadio-wave object detection
- sonarUnderwater detection by echoes
- LIDARLight-based distance measurement
inertial · gyroscope · autopilot · avionics · tracking · telemetry · waypoint · trajectory · homing · targeting
sensor
Input-detecting device
- actuatorDevice producing controlled motion
- servomechanismFeedback-controlled automatic mechanism
- stabilizerThing ensuring steadiness
feedback loop · algorithm · thruster · attitude control · closed-loop · error correction · input · output · calibration · responsiveness
coaching
Guiding others to improve
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- adviceGuidance on decisions
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
protégé · tutoring · apprenticeship · role model · wisdom · support · development · empowerment · growth · nurturing
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rocket, rockets, spacecraft
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- rocketryrocket, rockets, rocket fuel, rocket engine, rocket engines
- Air Combatair strike, airstrikes, fighter pilot, bombing run, combat aircraft
- military computersfire control, ENIAC, Colossus, targeting computer, flight computer
- reentryreentry, reentry vehicle, reentry capsule, heat shield, ablative
guidance systemdumb bomb
Unguided aerial munition
ballistic trajectory · gravity bomb · free flight · blind fire · freefall
guide, system, guidance, guided, guiding, guidebook, misguided, misguide, unguided