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.

A sun sensor is a device that senses the direction to the sun. 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. In addition to spacecraft sun sensors find use in ground based weather stations and sun tracking systems and aerial vehicles including balloons and uavs. To test motor 1 set the steps to 200 the interval to 20ms and the direction to forward.

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. Stepperbee are simple to use. Field tests of the sun finder sensors. The sun tracking sensors were experimented in operative conditions with direct exposition to the sun.

Sun sensors are used for attitude control solar array pointing gyro updating and fail safe recovery. Iss dx sun sensor measures the incident angle of a sun ray in both orthogonal axes and the solar radiation. A sun sensor is a navigational instrument used by spacecraft to detect the position of the sun. An earth sensor is a device that senses the direction to earth.

The high sensitivity reached is based on the geometrical dimensions of the design. Analog sensor whose output signal is a continuous function of sun angle. Sun sensors are usually classified into three types. Click on the run button and you should see motor 1 do one complete revolution in about 4 seconds.