ANN BASED ANGLE COMPUTATION UNIT FOR REDUCING THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF THE PARABOLIC ANTENNA CONTROLLER

The parabolic antenna controller is a control system which directs the antenna to the desired target automatically. A lot of different parabolic antenna controllers based on DSPs are proposed so far by the researchers, because the classical microcontroller sometimes remains insufficient because of the complex trigonometric angle computations. In these designs, it was taken into consideration by the researchers that sometimes sensitivity, sometimes accuracy, sometimes simplicity and sometimes power consumption of the system. In this study, a design of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based angle computation unit for the parabolic antenna controller with two DC motors is presented, so that the complex mathematical computations and the hardwares are eliminated and also power consumption of entire control system is reduced.