Title: Control Engineering Issues in the SEIMEI Telescope
Speaker: Professor Ichiro Jikuya, Faculty of Frontier Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
Abstract: A telescope is a device for collecting light and observing stars. The purpose of use of the telescope is scientific, but the manufacturing process of the telescope is engineering. Various control engineering issues have to be considered such as tracking, active optics, and adaptive optics for operating the telescope. In this talk, we focus on the active optics in the SEIMEI telescope, which is under construction in Okayama, Japan. The diameter of the primary mirror of the SEIMEI telescope is 3.8m and will be the largest in East Asia. The primary mirror is divided into 18 segmented mirrors, and therefore, the real-time relative position control of segmented mirrors is required for precise observation. We introduce the conceptual design of control system currently under development and simulation results.
Speaker(s): Professor Ichiro Jikuya,
Location:
Room: 418
Bldg: McLeod
University of British Columbia
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