A Study on the Tracking Antenna System for Satellite Communication Using Embedded Controller

  • Kim, Jong-Kwon (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Cho, Kyeum-Rae (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Dae-Woo (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Jang, Cheol-Soon (Shin Dong Digitech Co., Ltd.)
  • Published : 2004.08.25

Abstract

The tracking antenna system must be always pointed to a satellite for data link among moving vehicles. Especially, for an antenna mounted on a moving vehicle, it needs the stabilized the antenna system. So, software and hardware, signal processing of motion detection sensors, real-time processing of vehicle dynamics, trajectory estimation of satellite, antenna servo mechanism, and tracking algorithm, are unified in the antenna system. The purpose of this paper is to design the embedded tracking antenna control system for satellite communication. The embedded OS(Operating System) based stabilization and tracking algorithm was implemented. The performance of the designed embedded control system was verified by the real satellite communication test.

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