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.

An earth sensor is a device that senses the direction to earth. Iss dx sun sensor measures the incident angle of a sun ray in both orthogonal axes and the solar radiation. The high sensitivity reached is based on the geometrical dimensions of the design. Field tests of the sun finder sensors.

This can be as simple as some solar cells and shades or as complex as a steerable telescope depending on mission requirements. Sun sensors are usually classified into three types. 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. The sun tracking sensors were experimented in operative conditions with direct exposition to the sun.

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. A sun sensor is a device that senses the direction to the sun. Sun sensors are used for attitude control solar array pointing gyro updating and fail safe recovery.

You now have. Analog sensor whose output signal is a continuous function of sun angle. 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. The sensor inputs since we want to be able to track the sun we need some form of light detector.