Software development for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope's segment alignment maintenance system using LabVIEW

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 239-250

  Hall, Drew ^a   Ly, William ^a   Howard, Ricky ^a   Weir, John ^a   Rakoczy, John ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HET; LabVIEW; Mirror control; Segmented mirror; Software development

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE; MIRROR CONTROL; SEGMENT ALIGNMENT MAINTENANCE SYSTEM; SEGMENTED MIRROR;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036983060     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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