Tibor Kapu is investigating a new tracking method during the Hungarian space mission in the framework of the HUNOR programme - the Népszava and several other newspapers have highlighted that the sensors investigated by the Hungarian space explorer are also used in medicine, robotics and video games. The results of the HUN-REN Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute experiment could be useful for space navigation, co-ordination of space assets, docking and maintenance work. According to the information, the HUNOR IMU-DRS (IMU - Dead Reckoning in Space) experiment will test navigation in zero gravity using only accelerometer and gyroscope sensor data. Since the instruments are manufactured and tested in ground gravity conditions, it is of great importance to characterise the behaviour of the sensors providing the data in zero gravity. The advantage of microgravity compared to terrestrial conditions is that the latent acceleration caused by gravity does not need to be filtered out of the measurements, the instruments show true acceleration, which greatly helps to improve navigation accuracy.
"The data is then beamed back to Earth for evaluation and analysis. In the second phase, we will try to reconstruct the orbits described by the mobile device," Miklós Kornyik, head of the project and researcher at the HUN-REN Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute, was quoted as saying.
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