Inventors:
Mark G. Baciak - West Melbourne FL
Christina Padgett - Indialantic FL
Craig A. Baer - Colorado Springs CO
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air
Force - Washington DC
International Classification:
G05B 1918
Abstract:
A digital servomechanism and control system which can be used to adjustably point massive structures to increments of microaradians is disclosed. This system includes: a rotating pedestal which is mounted on a gimbal, a high torque motor, a high current amplifier, encoder, a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter, a mount dynamics unt, a summing junction, a rate control unit, a controller unit, a D/P unit, and a Micro Vax computer.