Sun Direction Sensor

The high sensitivity reached is based on the geometrical dimensions of the design.

Sun direction sensor. Its characteristics make it a suitable tool for high accurate sun tracking and positioning systems with low power consumption and high reliability. You now have. Iss dx sun sensor measures the incident angle of a sun ray in both orthogonal axes and the solar radiation. Sun sensors are usually classified into three types.

To test motor 1 set the steps to 200 the interval to 20ms and the direction to forward. The sensor inputs since we want to be able to track the sun we need some form of light detector. However the main advantage of pinhole sensor is to work on two axes while the slit sensor is a sun pointing system working only in one direction. In addition to spacecraft sun sensors find use in ground based weather stations and sun tracking systems and aerial vehicles including balloons and uavs.

Sun sensors are used for attitude control solar array pointing gyro updating and fail safe recovery. The sun tracking sensors were experimented in operative conditions with direct exposition to the sun. A sun sensor is a device that senses the direction to the sun. Field tests of the sun finder sensors.

Analog sensor whose output signal is a continuous function of sun angle. Stepperbee are simple to use. This can be as simple as some solar cells and shades or as complex as a steerable telescope depending on mission requirements. An earth sensor is a device that senses the direction to earth.