A high-precision angle encoder for a 10-m submillimeter antenna

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Radio Telescopes, Angle Encoder, Resolver

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We report measurements of angle error characteristics of new high-precision multi-speed resolvers developed for a 10-m submillimeter telescope of Nobeyama Radio Observatory. We have found the resolvers have an accuracy of 0.03" rms and 0.26" peak-to-peak, which is well below the error budget assigned to the angle encoder in the LMSA/ALMA project (0.15 - 0.2"). The error pattern in the raw readout had simple characteristics and was only composed of a few Fourier components which are associated with the number of winding poles and core slot number of stator. The 4" peak-to-peak error in the raw readout is reduced to less than 1/15 by the PROM correction. We have also found that shaft misalignment causes only small changes of error pattern (0.08" error per 0.10 mm shaft misalignment), which enables us to install the resolver simply by the fitting. The temperature dependence of error pattern also seems to be small enough for the operation temperature range specified in the project.

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