Main axis control of the large millimeter telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Smith, David R ^a   Souccar, Kamal ^b  

^a MERLAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Large telescopes; LMT; Main axis control; Tracking

Indexed keywords

AXIS CONTROL; AZIMUTH TRACKS; CONTROL FEATURES; DIGITAL CONTROL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DRIVE SYSTEMS; ELEVATION AXIS; FEED-FORWARD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; FRICTION COMPENSATION; GEAR RIMS; INITIAL OPERATION; LARGE MILLIMETER TELESCOPE; LARGE TELESCOPES; LMT; LOOK UP TABLE; MODEL-BASED; NONLINEAR EFFECT; POSITION LOOPS; PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL CONTROLLERS; RATE LOOP; SERVO SYSTEM; SPEED OPERATION; STATE-SPACE; TRACKING; TRACKING PERFORMANCE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TABLE LOOKUP; TUNING;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77958136659     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857501     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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3. Smith, D.R., and Souccar, K., "Friction compensation strategies in large telescopes," Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, San Diego, CA, 2010.
4. Smith, D.R., and Souccar, K., "A Polynomial-Based Trajectory Generator for Improved Telescope Control," SPIE symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Marseille, France, June 2008.