| Title: | Micro Sun Sensor |
| Author: | Liebe, Carl Christian ; Mobasser, Sohrab ; Wrigley, Chris J. ; Bae, Youngsam ; Howard, Ayanna M. ; Schroeder, Jeffrey R. |
| Abstract: | A prototype micro Sun sensor has been developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. It consists of a thin piece of silicon coated with a layer of chrome and a layer of gold with hundreds of small pinholes, placed on top of an Active Pixel Sensor (APS) image detector at a distance of 900 microns. Images of the Sun are formed on the APS image detector when the Sun illuminates the mask. Sun angles are derived by determining the precise location of the Sun images on the detector-just like a sundial. The packaged micro sun sensor has a mass of 11 grams, a volume of 4.2 cm3 and a power consumption of 30 mW. The accuracy of the micro sun sensor is better than 1 arcminute and the maximum field of view is 160°. |
| Description: |
©2002 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. Presented at the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2002. DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2002.1035393 |
| Type: | Proceedings |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38317 |
| ISBN: | 0-7803-7231-X |
| Citation: | C.C. Liebe, S. Mobasser, C.J. Wrigley, Y. Bae, A. Howard, J. Schroeder, “Micro Sun Sensor,” 2002 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2002, Vol. 5, 2263-2273. |
| Date: | 2002-03 |
| Contributor: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines |
| Publisher: |
Georgia Institute of Technology
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Subject: |
Sun sensor
Spacecraft MEMS mask Sun angles Active pixel sensor Micro Sun sensor |
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