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.

Sun direction sensor.

Field tests of the sun finder sensors. Sun sensors are usually classified into three types. Iss dx sun sensor measures the incident angle of a sun ray in both orthogonal axes and the solar radiation. The sensor inputs since we want to be able to track the sun we need some form of light detector.

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. You now have. A sun sensor is a device that senses the direction to the sun to measure the position of the sun or other light sources with respect to the sensor position.

A sun sensor is a device that senses the direction to the sun. A sun sensor is a navigational instrument used by spacecraft to detect the position of the sun. Stepperbee are simple to use. The high sensitivity reached is based on the geometrical dimensions of the design.

Click on the run button and you should see motor 1 do one complete revolution in about 4 seconds. To test motor 1 set the steps to 200 the interval to 20ms and the direction to forward. Analog sensor whose output signal is a continuous function of sun angle. This can be as simple as some solar cells and shades or as complex as a steerable telescope depending on mission requirements.