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The Robotic Multi-Object Focal Plane System of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Joseph Harry Silber, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning +97
A system of 5,020 robotic fiber positioners was installed in 2019 on the Mayall Telescope, at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The robots automatically re-target their optical fiber…
The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018
Alexis Hill, Nicolas Flagey, Alan McConnachie +122
(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the…
Collision-free motion planning for fiber positioner robots: discretization of velocity profiles
Laleh Makarem, Jean-Paul Kneib, Denis Gillet +6
The next generation of large-scale spectroscopic survey experiments such as DESI, will use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed on a focal plate. In order to maximize the ob…
Developing Micro DC-Brushless Motor Driver and Position Control for Fiber Positioners
Laurent Jenni, Philipp Hörler, Laleh Makarem +7
In the large-scale, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), thousands of fiber positioners will be used. Those are robotic positioners, with two axis, and having the size of a…
Collision Avoidance in Next-generation Fiber Positioner Robotic System for Large Survey Spectrograph
Laleh Makarem, Jean-Paul Kneib, Denis Gillet +5
Some of the next generation massive spectroscopic survey projects, such as DESI and PFS, plan to use thousands of fiber positioner robots packed at a focal plane to quickly move in…
Fiber Assignment in Next-generation Wide-field Spectrographs
Isaac Morales, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Marco Azzaro +3
We present an optimized algorithm for assigning fibers to targets in next-generation fiber-fed multi-object spectrographs. The method, that we named draining algorithm, ensures tha…
A Fiber Positioner Robot for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
Marco Azzaro, Santiago Becerril, Cristian Vilar +5
Fiber-fed spectrographs dedicated to observing massive portions of the sky are increasingly being more demanded within the astronomical community. For all the fiber-fed instruments…