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Force control technology of segment mirror exchange robot for Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

Masaki Haruna, Ieyoung Kim, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Satoru Sofuku, Toshitaka Nakaoji, Junji Takaki, Yusuke Saruta, Noboru Kawaguchi, Yasushi Horiuchi, Yutaka Ezaki

Year
2016
Citations
6

Abstract

SHS (Segment Handling System) is the subsystem implemented on the telescope. One of the key technologies of SHS is our force control technology applied to Segment Mirror Exchange Robot, which makes it possible to achieve safe and reliable mirror segment exchange as shown in Video 1.

Keywords

TelescopeRobotComputer scienceKey (lock)MetreRemote controlOpticsRemote sensingComputer visionSimulation

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