Yaw system information

The yaw system of wind turbines is the component responsible for the orientation of the wind turbine rotor towards the wind. The task of orienting the...

Look up yaw in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yaw or yaws may refer to: Yaw angle (or yaw rotation), one of the angular degrees of freedom of any stiff...

The yaw drive is an important component of the horizontal axis wind turbines' yaw system. To ensure the wind turbine is producing the maximal amount of...

A yaw damper (sometimes referred to as a stability augmentation system) is a system used to reduce (or damp) the undesirable tendencies of an aircraft...

reaction control system consisting of small rocket thrusters used to apply asymmetrical thrust on the vehicle. Yaw Pitch Roll Normal axis, or yaw axis — an axis...

The yaw bearing is the most crucial and cost intensive component of a yaw system found on modern horizontal axis wind turbines. The yaw bearing must cope...

Many helicopters have pitch, roll and yaw SAS systems. Pitch and roll SAS systems operate much the same way as the yaw damper described above; however, instead...

trim in the yaw direction (compensate moments in yaw generated by any asymmetry in thrust or drag), enable the aircraft to be controlled in yaw (for example...

vane, while large turbines generally use a wind sensor coupled with a yaw system. Most have a gearbox, which turns the slow rotation of the blades into...

the Lancer Evolution IV GSR was equipped with a similar Active Yaw Control (AYC) system in 1996. AYC was fitted to the rear wheels and similarly works...

roll and yaw, as well as gross movements. Gimballed systems could usually do well with update rates of 50–60 Hz. However, strapdown systems normally update...

Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum (born 9 April 1964) is a Ghanaian politician and member of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, representing the...

dimensions about the vehicle's center of gravity (cg), known as pitch, roll and yaw. These are collectively known as aircraft attitude, often principally relative...

providing torque to allow control of rotation (roll, pitch, and yaw). Reaction control systems often use combinations of large and small (vernier) thrusters...

flight control system will still be designed so that the stick or yoke controls pitch and roll conventionally, as will the rudder pedals for yaw. The basic...

called Cardan angles; nautical angles; heading, elevation, and bank; or yaw, pitch, and roll. Sometimes, both kinds of sequences are called "Euler angles"...

The vertical/Z axis, or yaw axis, is an imaginary line running vertically through the ship and through its centre of mass . A yaw motion is a side-to side...

the turbine faces are controlled by an active, all- electric pitch and yaw system. The generator and gearbox are contained in the nacelle, which is further...

refers to tracking of rotational motion only: pitch, yaw, and roll. Serial and parallel manipulator systems are generally designed to position an end-effector...

allow an inertial navigation system (stable table) to remain fixed in inertial space, compensating for changes in the ship's yaw, pitch, and roll. In this...

perpendicular (i.e., roll, pitch and yaw angles each zero). If the aircraft pitches up 90 degrees, the aircraft and platform's yaw axis gimbal becomes parallel...

causes a slight reduction in the thrust of a jet engine. Intake momentum drag yaw is a further consequence of intake momentum drag which effects V/STOL (vertical...

than those found in wind farms. Small wind turbines often have passive yaw systems as opposed to active ones. They use a direct drive generator and use...

deflection tolerant and aligns itself with the wind without an active yaw system. Two-bladed, downwind turbine designs that can accommodate flexibility...

In aeronautics, an environmental control system (ECS) of an aircraft is an essential component which provides air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization...

about this axis is called yaw. Yaw changes the direction the aircraft's nose is pointing, left or right. The primary control of yaw is with the rudder. Ailerons...