Vibration sensors for use in micro-gravity environment

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The object of the invention is to make it possible to detect vibrations which would destroy a micro-gravity environment, to grasp factors of the vibrations to detect, and grasp a position and a scale of meteoroid/debris collisions, and to establish a counter-measure. Vibration sensors are disposed in a matrix array on a vibrating body placed in a micro-gravity environment and the vibration data are collected and fed to a computer. The computer analyzes a spectrum of the vibration in a, neural network section a vibration source is specified on the basis of the analyzed spectra, in a fuzzy control section, actuators are driven so as to reduce harmful vibrations in response to the vibration …