2006 Volume 115 Pages 91-97
Authors designed and developed a new-type of satellite tracking antenna for Maritime Broad Band Communication and a Luneburg Lens Antenna applied in this study because this lens antenna has distinctive functions to communicate with multiple satellites simultaneously. For the sake of tracking a target satellite accurately on board, authors used a gimbals-type of stable platform on which a Luneburg Lens Antenna was installed. Stochastic autoregressive models supported to predict ship's rolling, pitching and yawing behaviors in the stabilizing mechanism. In this paper, the authors describe the principle of this new type of ship's antenna system and evaluate the results of the actual experiments on board.
