Global radius-of-curvature estimation and control for the Hobby-Eberly telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 681-692

  Rakoczy, John ^a   Hall, Drew ^a   Ly, William ^a   Howard, Ricky ^a   Montgomery, Edward ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Edge sensors; Radius of curvature; Segmented mirror

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; SENSORS;

SEGMENTED MIRRORS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0013131838     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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