METHOD FOR SYNTHESIS OF FIXED RELATIVE DIRECTION-FINDING CHARACTERISTIC OF STATIC AMPLITUDE SENSOR OF FACETED TYPE OF REMOTE RADIANT FLUX SOURCE AND DEVICE THEREFOR Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G01S1/08 G01S3/781 

FIELD: physics, instrument-making.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to instrument-making and further improvement of amplitude sensors of faceted type, involved in solving tasks for navigation, orientation, stabilisation and positioning of mobile objects based on the Sun or other intensity source. The method solves the problem of synthesizing fixed relative direction-finding characteristic of a sensor, which determines the position of the energy centre of a remote radiation source relative to the principal axis of the Cartesian coordinate system of a mobile object. The method comprises replacing passive radiation detectors - photonic receivers of a sensor with hybrid passive modules, which include a passive radiation detector with a frontal flat sensitive surface and a pair of thin opaque vertical walls, arranged laterally along the angular axis of the Cartesian coordinate system of the sensor, synthesizing the fixed relative direction-finding characteristic using the hybrid passive modules. Synthesis is combining a specific set of hybrid modules, which enables to optimise measurement parameters of the sensor to the task being solved. The device is a sensor (passive direction-finder), which implements the method, demonstrates, with the corresponding structural and process approach of construction, how to obtain minimum weight, volume and electric power consumption.

EFFECT: method and device which implements the method open up a new area of designing passive photoelectric direction-finders with 10-360 degrees viewing windows on each coordinate, with minimum error of angular measurements therein.

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