METHOD OF CONTROLLING INERTIAL ANTENNA DRIVE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G05D3/12 G01S13/66 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: method of controlling an inertial drive of an antenna includes generating a tracking error signal on the target bearing by subtracting the estimate of signal of the turning angle of the antenna from the estimate signal of the target bearing and amplification thereof with a gain coefficient which depends on properties of the antenna drive; generating tracking error signals from all target bearing derivatives estimated in the filter of an angle metre by subtracting the estimate signal of each derivative of the turning angle of the antenna from the estimate signal of each target bearing derivative; amplifying each of said tracking error signals on the target bearing derivatives with different gain coefficients which depend on properties of the antenna drive and addition thereof with the amplified tracking error signal on the target bearing to form an antenna drive control signal. In order to generate an antenna drive signal, gain coefficients are varied on each probing pulse synchronously with probing pulse transmissions.

EFFECT: high reliability of target acquisition in case of rare transmissions of probing pulses and accuracy of tracking a fast flying point target.

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