KEYWORDS: Field effect transistors, Control systems, Telescopes, Control systems design, Large telescopes, Astronomical telescopes, Optical instrument design, Astronomy, Signal processing, Computer programming
The mount drive control is the key technique which mostly affects astronomical telescope’s resolution and its speed.
However, the ultra -lower speed and the giant moment of inertia make it very difficult to be controlled. In this paper, one
segmented permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), 4m diameter, is suggested for the mount driving. A method
is presented to drive the motor directly, which is based on TMS320F28XX and Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) ,
also, HEIDENHAIN tape is used to detect the absolute position of the motor together with the Hall sensor. The
segmented PMSM can work stable and the mount drive can realize nice tracking performance at ultra -lower speed with
this drive system.
KEYWORDS: Stars, Charge-coupled devices, Telescopes, Data processing, Control systems, Detection and tracking algorithms, Image processing, CCD cameras, Photons, Control systems design
The CCD Auto-Guiding Star System is a significant part in the telescope control system for minimizing the tracking
errors, and acquiring high-resolution data. In this paper, the improved algorithms of the off-axis CCD Auto-Guiding Star
System is designed and applied. Especially the de-rotator algorithm is added for the large-field Alt-Az Telescope to keep
stars at original positions. The software that can communicate with the CCD camera is designed to collect, analyze and
process data, and then sent data to Alt-Az control system in real time less than 160ms. The algorithms to calculate
centriod of stars are novel. The experimental results were high-resolution and reliable for system, the RMS of star offset
vector can arrive 0.03 pixel. In addition, experiments showed that the software could work steadily in long time. Now the
CCD Auto-guiding software has been applied on the f/8 reflecting Alt-Az telescope with 2.5m aperture, 1-degree field of
view.
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