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16 July 2008 Distributed modeling and control of a segmented mirror surface
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The next generation of ground-based optical telescopes will employ increasingly large primary mirrors to achieve superior resolution and light collecting abilities. Many of these large mirror surfaces will be segmented into an array of hundreds of smaller mirror segments. The corresponding number of required sensors and actuators will be in the order of thousands, which creates a challenging control problem to stabilize and align each segment from external disturbances - wind shake, gravity forces, thermal effects, seismic effects and induced vibrations from surrounding equipment and telescope motion - so that the telescope's image quality requirements can be met. The use of a centralized control scheme may be infeasible due to the large number of inputs and outputs of the resulting control system, while a decentralize control scheme would lack global performance. An attractive alternative approach is an interconnected network of distributed controllers that provide global control with a highly scalable design and implementation. A segmented mirror can be considered as an interconnected system comprised of many similar discrete subsystems, where each subsystem represents an individual mirror segments and its dynamics are coupled directly to its neighboring segments. The resulting distributed controller network of controller subsystems are similarly coupled and working cooperatively to achieve the desired global performance.
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Dan A. Kerley, Edward J. Park, and Jennifer Dunn "Distributed modeling and control of a segmented mirror surface", Proc. SPIE 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II, 70191Z (16 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789834
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KEYWORDS
Control systems

Actuators

Mirrors

Matrices

Device simulation

Systems modeling

Segmented mirrors

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