Fiscal Year	2019
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Space Systems Academic Group
Investigator(s)	Proulx, Ronald J. Karpenko, Mark
Sponsor	Department of Defense Space (DoD)
Summary	In adaptive optics, control of deformable mirrors is based on inverting an over-determined influence matrix that relates a vector of control voltages to the mirror shape. The status-quo solution to this problem is the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse: a least-effort solution for control allocation. This project provides a new approach for deformable mirror control in the presence of uncertainty that can: (i) reduce the error associated with an off-nominal influence matrix, (ii) relax requirements on iterative feedback for mitigating uncertainties, and (iii) enhance the ability of the deformable mirror to correct for optical aberrations by a firmware modification only.
Keywords	Adaptive Optics unscented optimization
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