Title :
Pointing and tracking servo for the Haystack auxiliary antenna (HAX)
Author :
Corbett, Edward G. ; Rossini, Peter L. ; Gallon, Derek W. ; Hotz, Anthony F.
Author_Institution :
MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
An overview of the servo design for a 40-ft-diameter radar dish two-axis mount is presented. Several fundamental upgrades were implemented, including a four-quadrant six-pulse phase control rectifier power amplifier system, a microcontroller-based maintenance chassis, a high-resolution encoding system, and digital servo compensation
Keywords :
attitude control; encoding; microcontrollers; radar antennas; reflector antennas; servomechanisms; tracking systems; 40 ft; HAX; Haystack auxiliary antenna; digital servo compensation; four-quadrant six-pulse phase control rectifier power amplifier system; high-resolution encoding system; microcontroller-based maintenance chassis; pointing servo; radar dish two-axis mount; tracking servo; Assembly; Azimuth; Control systems; Force control; Optical control; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar tracking; Servomechanisms; Spaceborne radar;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 1992., First IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0047-5
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.1992.269712
