Next-generation deformable mirrors are envisaged to exhibit low-frequency flexible dynamics and to contain a large number of spatially distributed actuators due to increasingly …
H Zhang, Z Xu, A Xu, E Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Considering that the Line-Of-Sight (LOS) of a small optical payload is mainly connected with the angular motions while insensitive to linear motion, a novel pointing and stabilizing …
A Reinacher, F Graf, B Greiner, H Jakob… - Journal of …, 2018 - World Scientific
The SOFIA telescope is a 2.5 m class Cassegrain telescope with Nasmyth focus. It is the largest telescope ever integrated into an aircraft. The telescope is exposed to the …
PJ Keas, E Dunham, U Lampater… - Ground-based and …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The NASA/DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) employs a 2.5- meter reflector telescope in a Boeing 747SP. The telescope is housed in an open cavity and …
R Liu, H Zhang, X Wang, Q Gao, Z Liu, Y Yu, Q Wang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, the experimental modes of a large-scale photoelectric theodolite tracking frame are presented. On the basis of the experimental data and the gradient-less …
U Lampater, T Herter, P Keas, F Harms… - Ground-based and …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
During observation flights the telescope structure of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is subject to disturbance excitations over a wide frequency …
P Kaswekar, JF Wagner - 2015 DGON Inertial Sensors and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible structures with spatially distributed accelerometers are a central feature of the “experimental modal analysis” serving to characterize the vibration properties of elastic …