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SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
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antenna unit and transceiver unit is status and fail information from the antenna and configuration data.
Configuration data concerns frequency set-up of the synthesizer, DOWN converter filter selection, and
transmitter power level. The received data from the transceiver unit is processed by a microcontroller placed
on the tracking and stabilisation processor board, which also takes care of data in the opposite direction.
The tracking and stabilisation processor board is the heart of the antenna stabilisation system. To stabilise
the platform, tilt sensor and rata sensors are placed in different places on the platform. Those sensors
together with the tracking receiver supply input to the tracking and stabilisation processor board, which, as
output, controls the motors. In the following chapter the stabilisation system is described in detail.
The connection from the triplexer to the coax cable is made by means of a connection board and a rotary
joint. The rotary joint is used instead of a cable unwrap system. On the connection board, the main 40V
supply voltage from the transceiver unit is taken out and connected to the input of the switch mode power
supply (SMPS). The SMPS delivers different kinds of supply voltages to the modules. Besides those fixed
voltages, a microprocessor controlled voltage used to regulate the output power from the HPA is also
delivered.
If for some reason signals between transceiver unit and antenna unit are missing, a signal called
dead man’s
button is activated, shutting the regulated voltage to the HPA, thus preventing the HPA from transmitting.
2.1.1
PRINCIPLE OF STABILISATION
The main objective of the stabilisation system is to keep the antenna pointing as accurately as possible
in the referenced pointing direction at any time under environmental conditions (ship yaw, pitch and roll).
To obtain this the antenna stabilisation system is based on three axis active stabilisation with closed loop
control of each axis. The individual axes are named azimuth (yaw/turning correction), cross elevation and
elevation (roll and pitch correction) as shown in fig. 2.1.1. Each axis uses a double sensor principal for
angular movement measurement (combined measurement of angular rate and absolute angle) and an
electrical motor as actuator. The angular rate is measured by means of angular rate gyros based on
oscillating piezoelectric crystals. For absolute angle reference the elevation (El) and cross elevation (Ce)
axes use a fluid based inclinometer, and the azimuth (Az) axis uses the ships gyro compass.
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Az
Ce
El
Fig. 2.1.1.
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