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IMU User Guide revision 3.1 SMC Ship Motion Control www.shipmotion.eu
4.9.2
LEVER ARM
The best placement for the motion sensor is at the vessel Center of Gravity (CG) as the vessel has the
lowest lateral accelerations in this point.
When the motion sensor is mounted in another location than the Center of Gravity, the accuracy of
the output may be degraded from rotational accelerations onboard the vessel. By entering the
distance between the motion sensor and the center of gravity, lever arm, in the SMC IMU
Configuration software the motion sensor will subtract rotational accelerations and improve the
readings. The highest rotational accelerations are generated when there is a large Z distance
between the rotational point and the motion sensor.
The Lever arm feature moves the motion sensor mathematically, and all of its calculations, to the
entered Lever Arm position.
In the case of entering a Lever Arm distance, the heave calculation is moved to the entered Lever
Arm location and then returned back automatically with a remote heave calculation to the physical
mounting location. This remote heave calculation done by the Lever Arm feature is not to be seen in
the remote heave fields in the configuration software.
When a lever arm distance is entered, practically the Heave and Heave velocity will remain in the
physical location of the motion sensor while accelerations and angular calculations are moved to the
Lever Arm location. If Heave and Heave velocity is to be moved to the Lever Arm position a remote
heave distance would have to be entered in the configuration software with the same distances as
entered for the Lever Arm.
Remote heave locations different from the motion sensor physical installation point will be entered
with the motion sensor
physical location
as the starting point for the distance measurements.
When a Lever Arm is entered and the calculation is moved to the new calculation point, static offsets
in the Heave output will occur from static angles of the motion sensor when automatic remote heave
calculation is returning the motion sensor to the physical mounting point. Filter heave to Zero tick
box will filter this offset to zero.