Inertia tensors and centres of masses identification at semiprogram precession motions

This paper presents a new method for identifying the inertia tensor of a rigid body on a specific spherical motion. This motion contains a stage of slowed rotation and a stage of reverse symmetric accelerated rotation, where one of the stages can be chosen to be non-program. The moments of inertia of a body about five positions of its instantaneous axis are defined on a single precession. The sixth moment of inertia is defined on an additional program rotation about a fixed axis. The method can be used on devices with essential dissipation.