Id tend to agree.
I am not familiar with all the scenarios with regard to this particular system and its locking behaviour but I would suggest that if degrees of extremity are listed in the manual, its a good indication of the camera being used at its extremities when the lock warning is on screen i.e misuse. Engineers understand gimbal lock and how to avoid it so logic follows that in a highly advanced system, lock should be nearly impossible if the system is working as intended; both software and hardware can be employed to predict a lock and use a fourth axis or an alternate path of gimbal movement to move the load or gyro or whatever the gimbals are housing move as intended without axis alignment.
The 0.2s is likely predetermined closed loop system set in a way to avoid oscillation between free movement and target lock or movement and compensatory circuit. You dont want jitter on your targetting system.
I can not verify this based on a lack of specifics about the design of the circuits but I have designed control systems using 'Asynchronous servopositioning' with DC motors (the ones that spin like a clappers when you put the power on). These systems are the ones used in things like cannon turrets so I would summise that it could be a similar system in the trackers.
I cant seem to find it but someone mentioned that the bumps seem to coincide with the Gimbal Lock warning by 0.2s? As an engineer, my take on this would be simply that the gimbals are attempting to move but due to 2 axes having become aligned (gimbal lock) the result is an incorrect rotation away from the target. This is undesirable in the system due to the target being locked and so the system is returned to the initial state, the system uses a fourth axis or other mechanism to un-align the axes to return the movement to normal. This process would have repeatable timing over the same attempted movements.I believe that there is no doubt about the multirole use of the ATFLIR, but the problem is that the gimbal lock is more frequent in dogfights due to an evident target position. I don't think bumps are due to atmospheric turbulence. There is little variation of CAS. I believe they are more related to the image stabilization by the camera.
I am not familiar with all the scenarios with regard to this particular system and its locking behaviour but I would suggest that if degrees of extremity are listed in the manual, its a good indication of the camera being used at its extremities when the lock warning is on screen i.e misuse. Engineers understand gimbal lock and how to avoid it so logic follows that in a highly advanced system, lock should be nearly impossible if the system is working as intended; both software and hardware can be employed to predict a lock and use a fourth axis or an alternate path of gimbal movement to move the load or gyro or whatever the gimbals are housing move as intended without axis alignment.
The 0.2s is likely predetermined closed loop system set in a way to avoid oscillation between free movement and target lock or movement and compensatory circuit. You dont want jitter on your targetting system.
I can not verify this based on a lack of specifics about the design of the circuits but I have designed control systems using 'Asynchronous servopositioning' with DC motors (the ones that spin like a clappers when you put the power on). These systems are the ones used in things like cannon turrets so I would summise that it could be a similar system in the trackers.