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
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