Browsing by Subject "Optical telescopes"

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      Centralized, decentralized, and overlapping control designs for a segmented telescope 

      Li, K.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Boussalis, Helen R. (IEEE, 1999)
      The accurate control of the segments of large segmented telescopes to achieve the desired shape could open the way for the construction of much larger telescopes with much better capabilities. In this article, we consider ...
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      Control techniques for a large segmented reflector 

      Li, K.; Kosmatopoulos, E. B.; Ioannou, Petros A.; Boussalis, Helen R.; Mirmirani, M.; Chassiakos, Anastassios (1998)
      NASA has founded a project to design and construct a test-bed in the Controls and Structures Laboratory at the California State University to study the complex dynamic behavior of large segmented optical systems. The ...