• DocumentCode
    668502
  • Title

    World Pendulum @ e-lab

  • Author

    Figueiredo, Renato ; Pereira, T. ; Balula, S. ; Neto, Rui ; Fernandes, H. ; Amarante-Segundo, G. ; Borges, I.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Super. Tecnico Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    18-20 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    143
  • Lastpage
    147
  • Abstract
    World Pendulum is a project with the main purpose of studying the behavior of standard gravity with latitude. Several automated simple pendulums are distributed across different latitudes. Each of these pendulums can be remotely operated over the Internet, communicating in real time the measured period of the oscillations, which may then be used to calculate the value of g. This article describes the World Pendulum project and it´s implementation integrated into e-lab, a software framework that allows remote control of real experiments over the Internet[1]. Preliminary results show that a good agreement with the established spherical harmonics model is obtained, with the absolute overall error being under 0.0002 m/s2.
  • Keywords
    Internet; control engineering computing; geophysics computing; gravity; pendulums; telecontrol; Internet; automated simple pendulums; e-lab; remote control; software framework; spherical harmonics model; standard gravity; world pendulum; Equations; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gravity; Mathematical model; Noise; Oscillators; Standards;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at'13), 2013 2nd
  • Conference_Location
    Coimbra
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ExpAt.2013.6703047
  • Filename
    6703047