A design of Software Driver for A satellite Dish Antenna Positioning System
Emad A. Gabbar · 2015
This paper deals with designing a Satellite Dish Antenna Positioning System using stepper motors. The system's software use longitude, latitude of the dish position (antenna site) and the satellite longitude as an input data. The software makes different calculations to transform this data to digits. The digits are then transformed to signals and fed to the stepper motors drivers to move the antenna adjusting azimuth, elevation and polarization angles to the intended satellite. The paper aims to describe the algorism and flow-chart of the system's software which allows users controlling and adjusting the antenna remotely. Also it aims to show the outputs of the software that will be transformed to signals to control the system's hardware drivers.