Damping SOFIA: Passive and active damping for the stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4331, Issue , 2001, Pages 60-71

  Maly, J R ^a   Keas, P J ^a   Glaese, R M ^a  

^a CSA ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Active damping; Active mass damper; Image jitter; Image motion control; Passive damping; Reaction mass actuator; Tracking stability; Tuned mass damper

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASTRONOMY; DAMPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

IMAGE MOTION CONTROL; REACTION-MASS ACTUATORS;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 0034851879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.432734     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Preliminary analysis of structural damping and control techniques involving reaction masses to reduce image jitter in the SOFIA telescope