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(More customer reviews)This book fills an interesting niche in the field. Large antennas and large telescope structures are very similar, and the fundamental approaches used to understand their performance are the same. The author does a commendable job of presenting the necessary information in a clear and understandable way; let down slightly by a few typos and some slightly weak error checking and editing (this book is not cheap - this sort of thing should be picked up in the proofing) - but despite this it is well worth the money.
I work for a large telescope project and this book is worth purchasing simply to get the perspective of an experienced practitioner in the field, and to see common questions ('Is a velocity loop really necessary?') comprehensively yet compactly addressed. Overall, an interesting and worthwhile book - would that more engineers in the field could - and would - produce something similar. The discipline would be the richer for it.
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The book shows, step by step, the design, implementation, and testing of the antenna/telescope control system, from the design stage (analytical model) to fine tuning of the RF beam pointing (monopulse and conscan). The purpose of this book is to present the implementation of the new theoretical developments in structural dynamics and control theory in the antenna and telescope industry. Also to present the significant improvement in pointing accuracy of the antenna and telescope when the presented techniques are implemented.This book fills the need in the antenna/telescope control techniques. For long time, since 1990 when the last book was published, there was no publication on the antenna/telescope/radar modeling and control.
