guidance systems
Automated course correction
Guidance systems are the technologies that direct vehicles, projectiles, or other moving objects toward their intended destinations.
The term appears most often in military and aerospace contexts, where missiles, rockets, and spacecraft rely on combinations of sensors, computers, and control mechanisms to navigate.
A guidance system may use inertial measurement, GPS, radar, or optical tracking—sometimes several methods working together.
The missile's guidance system locked onto the target.
Consumer applications include the navigation systems in automobiles and drones.
- GPSSatellite-based location technology
- autopilotAutomated vehicle guidance system
- ground controlEarth-based flight management
- gyroscopesSpinning axis-orientation devices
- flight pathPlanned aerial trajectory
accelerometers · telemetry · magnetometers · attitude control · guided missile · cruise missile · heat seeking · trajectory · orbital mechanics · homing · laser guided · smart bomb · propulsion systems · radar · avionics · waypoint · targeting systems · ballistic
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
- rocketryrocket, rockets, rocket fuel, rocket engine, rocket engines
- military technologymissiles, drones, radar systems, stealth technology, weapon systems
- Rocket Manufacturingheat shielding
- agtechvariable rate, autosteer, remote sensing, satellite imaging, site-specific
guidance systemsmanual steering
Wheel control without assistance
manual control · joystick control · manual operation · dead reckoning · pilotage
guidance systemsfree flight
Unpowered aerial travel
ballistic trajectory · dumb bombs · dead reckoning · spray and pray
guidance systemscelestial navigation
Location-finding via astronomical observation