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Starbug fibre positioning robots: performance and reliability enhancements
David M. Brown, Scott Case, James Gilbert +9
Starbugs are miniature piezoelectric walking robots that can be operated in parallel to position many payloads like optical fibers across a telescopes focal plane. They consist of…
Hector - a new massively multiplexed IFS instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Julia J. Bryant, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Jon Lawrence +14
Hector will be the new massively-multiplexed integral field spectroscopy (IFS) instrument for the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia and the next main dark-time instrume…
Starbugs: all-singing, all-dancing fibre positioning robots
James Gilbert, Michael Goodwin, Jeroen Heijmans +7
Starbugs are miniature piezoelectric 'walking' robots with the ability to simultaneously position many optical fibres across a telescope's focal plane. Their simple design incorpor…