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High-precision CubeSat sun sensor coupled with infrared Earth horizon detector. / Pelemeshko, Anatoly; Kolesnikova, Alena; Melkov, Alexander et al.
In: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 734, No. 1, 012012, 29.01.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - High-precision CubeSat sun sensor coupled with infrared Earth horizon detector
AU - Pelemeshko, Anatoly
AU - Kolesnikova, Alena
AU - Melkov, Alexander
AU - Prokopyev, Vitaliy
AU - Zadorozhny, Alexander
PY - 2020/1/29
Y1 - 2020/1/29
N2 - This paper presents a novel miniature module of orientation sensors for CubeSat nanosatellites. A high-precision sun sensor and a detector of the Earth horizon are located in one small module body. A two-axis digital sun sensor built into the orientation module is based on the registration of the sunspot formed on the matrix CMOS image sensor when the sun's rays pass through a pinhole in the front mask. A commercially available miniature array of infrared thermometers is used as the Earth horizon sensor. The paper is mainly devoted to the development of the sun sensor. For laboratory tests, a prototype of the orientation module was developed. Laboratory tests and sun sensor calibration confirmed the sun sensor field of view of 120° and made it possible to determine its angular resolution of ±0.015°. The final accuracy of determining the direction to the Sun by the sensor that was calibrated using the existing experimental setup is ±0.15° with 95% confidence. It is possible to improve the accuracy of the sun sensor by improving the experimental setup for its calibration.
AB - This paper presents a novel miniature module of orientation sensors for CubeSat nanosatellites. A high-precision sun sensor and a detector of the Earth horizon are located in one small module body. A two-axis digital sun sensor built into the orientation module is based on the registration of the sunspot formed on the matrix CMOS image sensor when the sun's rays pass through a pinhole in the front mask. A commercially available miniature array of infrared thermometers is used as the Earth horizon sensor. The paper is mainly devoted to the development of the sun sensor. For laboratory tests, a prototype of the orientation module was developed. Laboratory tests and sun sensor calibration confirmed the sun sensor field of view of 120° and made it possible to determine its angular resolution of ±0.015°. The final accuracy of determining the direction to the Sun by the sensor that was calibrated using the existing experimental setup is ±0.15° with 95% confidence. It is possible to improve the accuracy of the sun sensor by improving the experimental setup for its calibration.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079676168&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1757-899X/734/1/012012
DO - 10.1088/1757-899X/734/1/012012
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85079676168
VL - 734
JO - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
SN - 1757-8981
IS - 1
M1 - 012012
T2 - 2nd International Scientific Conference on Advanced Technologies in Aerospace, Mechanical and Automation Engineering, MIST: Aerospace 2019
Y2 - 18 November 2019 through 21 November 2019
ER -
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