Distributed control in adaptive optics: deformable mirror and turbulence modeling

Rogier Ellenbroek; Michel Verhaegen; Niek Doelman; Roger Hamelinck; Nick Rosielle; Maarten Steinbuch

doi:10.1117/12.671688

28 June 2006 Distributed control in adaptive optics: deformable mirror and turbulence modeling

Rogier Ellenbroek, Michel Verhaegen, Niek Doelman, Roger Hamelinck, Nick Rosielle, Maarten Steinbuch

Proceedings Volume 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II; 62723K (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671688
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

Future large optical telescopes require adaptive optics (AO) systems whose deformable mirrors (DM) have ever more degrees of freedom. This paper describes advances that are made in a project aimed to design a new AO system that is extendible to meet tomorrow's specifications. Advances on the mechanical design are reported in a companion paper [6272-75], whereas this paper discusses the controller design aspects. The numerical complexity of controller designs often used for AO scales with the fourth power in the diameter of the telescope's primary mirror. For future large telescopes this will undoubtedly become a critical aspect. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of solving this issue with a distributed controller design. A distributed framework will be introduced in which each actuator has a separate processor that can communicate with a few direct neighbors. First, the DM will be modeled and shown to be compatible with the framework. Then, adaptive turbulence models that fit the framework will be shown to adequately capture the spatio-temporal behavior of the atmospheric disturbance, constituting a first step towards a distributed optimal control. Finally, the wavefront reconstruction step is fitted into the distributed framework such that the computational complexity for each processor increases only linearly with the telescope diameter.

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Rogier Ellenbroek, Michel Verhaegen, Niek Doelman, Roger Hamelinck, Nick Rosielle, and Maarten Steinbuch "Distributed control in adaptive optics: deformable mirror and turbulence modeling", Proc. SPIE 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II, 62723K (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671688

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