Large reflector antennas are widely used as radio telescopes and active main reflectors are generally applied to improve the surface accuracy. Considering that the high cost has been one important problem in engineeri...
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Large reflector antennas are widely used as radio telescopes and active main reflectors are generally applied to improve the surface accuracy. Considering that the high cost has been one important problem in engineering, it is worth discussing whether it is necessary to install actuators on all the panels. Thus, in this paper, a hybrid-panel-based new design idea for large reflector antenna is proposed. Assuming that the actuators are installed only in the region of the reflector with large deformations and there are no actuators in other region to reduce the actuator number, the surface accuracies and the corresponding electromagnetic(EM) performances calculated by three different panel adjustment strategies are compared. The most effective method is that the deformed reflector should be first preadjusted to reduce the gravity deformation and then the panels equipped with actuators should be adjusted to the locations determined by the best fitting reflector(BFR) derived by the deformed reflector with no actuators. A 35 m reflector antenna is adopted as an example to calculate the surface accuracy and EM performance when parts of the panels are equipped with actuators. The simulation results show that there is no need to install actuators on all panels and the presented method can greatly reduce the number of actuators with guaranteed surface accuracy. Thus, during the antenna structural design phase, once the surface accuracy requirement is given, the number of actuators can be minimized to reduce the manufacturing and maintenance costs as much as possible. This paper can provide valuable guidance for the design of an active main reflector with hybrid panels.
A novel analytic approach for the research of effect on electromagnetic performance of reflector antennas with deformation, including random processing error and system error caused by external loads(such as wind,grav...
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A novel analytic approach for the research of effect on electromagnetic performance of reflector antennas with deformation, including random processing error and system error caused by external loads(such as wind,gravity, and solar radiation), in panels of the reflector surface is proposed. The deformations are modeled as error intervals, and their impact on the electromagnetic performance, including radiation power pattern and some main electromagnetic characteristics(such as side lobe level,peak power, and half-power beamwidth), are efficiently estimated by Interval analysis(IA). The closed-form equations indicate the relationship between the error interval and the bounds(upper and lower bounds) of the radiated power pattern interval by exploiting the rules of interval arithmetic. Two kinds of surface errors(random and system error) and two shapes of deformation area(bump-like and sector) are taken into account in the numerical examples to assess the validation and effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results of the examples show that the proposed IA-based approach has great capability and effectiveness regarding the traditional statistical method(such as Monte-Carlo method).
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