Design and implementation of the primary and secondary mirror control system for NST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6274, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yang, G ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Control software; Java; Object oriented; XML

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE OPTICS; CONTROL SOFTWARE; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ABERRATIONS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIRRORS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OBSERVATORIES; SPACE TELESCOPES; XML;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749250018     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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