H-infinity motion control system for a 2 m telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4836, Issue , 2002, Pages 88-97

  Medrano Cerda, Gustave A ^a   Lett, Robert D ^a   Rees, Paul ^a  

^a Telescope Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

H Infinity control; Robust telescope control systems; Tracking and pointing; Wind buffeting

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037967357     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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