Active Pointing Compensation of a HTS Multibeam Antenna

Table 4

Driving efficiencies of the MFCs for different driving strategies.

Driving outputs	Deformation directions		Translations and rotations (×10^-3)
			(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(°)	(°)	(°)
Extending	Elongation along		0.991	0.001	-0.042	0.001	-0.001	-0.001
	Contraction along		-0.991	-0.001	0.042	-0.001	0.001	0.001
Bending	Rotation about		0.004	-0.005	1.523	0.002	1.531	0.001
	Rotation about		0.001	-1.482	0.053	-0.001	0.001	1.528
Torsioning	Rotation about		-0.011	-0.291	-0.48	3.173	-0.584	0.021
	Rotation about		0.003	0.754	0.048	3.186	0.001	-0.604