Accession Number:
ADA581865
Title:
Pointing and Jitter Control for the USNA Multi-Beam Combining System
Descriptive Note:
Trident Scholar Project rept. no. 419
Corporate Author:
NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS MD
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Report Date:
2013-05-10
Pagination or Media Count:
95.0
Abstract:
The ability to accurately combine energy from multiple low power beams on a specific target is critical to making directed energy weapons effective and practical. At the United States Naval Academy Directed Energy Research Center, a project is underway to develop a three beam combining system that employs fast steering mirrors FSMs for pointing and jitter control of individual beams. In the previous work, an adaptive H-infinity optimal controller has been developed to control a single beam using a beam position detector for feedback. This project will apply the H-infinity adaptive controller and other controllers to the multiple-beam combining system in a multiple-input, multiple-output feedback control environment. Instead of using a position detector, a high-speed video camera will be employed to provide centroid estimation and feedback for pointing control algorithms.
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Subject Categories:
- Directed Energy Weapons