Mathematical model of stabilising and tracking control system in main battle tank

The aim of this researches was to identify all functional blocks of tank gun stabiliser 2E28M (installed in tanks T-72 and PT-91 Twardy) in order to build mathematical model of the system. The tank gun stabiliser is an electro-hydraulic control system, which makes possible aiming at a target, tracking of a target and stabilise of a given gun and turret angular position. The two-axial stabiliser consists of two separate control systems to stabilise the gun in elevation and the turret (with gun) in azimuth. After detailed analysis of construction and work principles, functional schemes of investigated systems were build. Afterwards, static and dynamic characteristics of functional parts of the system were determined. Because of obtained characteristics and based on the knowledge about the system feedbacks, structural schemes and mathematical models of foregoing stabiliser were derived. The results of numerical computations were compared with the existing results of experimental tests carried-out on a real plant. The results of experimental and model simulation investigations showed that the mathematical model and its numerical implementation were correctly developed.