A simple based on DSP antenna controller of weather radar

Author

Wang, XianQin ; Yong, She ; He, JinWei ; Zhu, BeiChuan

Author_Institution

DPR Lab., Chengdu Inf. Technol. Univ., China

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1071

Lastpage

1074

Abstract

This paper describes a simple based on DSP antenna controller which integrates SDC (synchro to digital converter) and RDC (resolver to digital converter) with antenna control logic calibration of the antenna angular code and adjustment of the radar antenna control system. It makes the antenna control system hardware simple, compact, stable, low-cost, highly flexible and easily maintainable. It is affordable for a low-cost X-band weather radar of weather modification operation. The paper starts with a simple description of the hardware architecture and then analyzes the angular resolution and accuracy. Finally it presents auto-angle code calibration and adjustment of the radar antenna control system

Keywords

calibration; digital signal processing chips; meteorological radar; radar antennas; radar signal processing; telecommunication control; DSP antenna controller; TMS320F206 DSP; angular accuracy; angular resolution; antenna angular code; antenna control logic calibration; auto-angle code calibration; hardware architecture; low-cost X-band weather radar; radar antenna control system; resolver to digital converter; synchro to digital converter; weather radar; Calibration; Control systems; Digital signal processing; Hardware; Helium; Information technology; Logic; Meteorological radar; Radar antennas; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar, 2001 CIE International Conference on, Proceedings

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7000-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICR.2001.984896

Filename

984896