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Fiscal Year 2008
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Agrawal, Jr., Brij N.
Sponsor Air Force Research Laboratory (Air Force)
Summary The objective of this research program is to maintain the Advanced Inertial Reference Unit (AIRU) in an operational state at NPS for use by the students as well as engage in efforts to improve its performance. This unit was developed by applied technology associates for the missile defense agency and NPS received it in 2007. The main tasks will consist of moving the AIRU from the NPS optical relay laboratory to the clean room of adaptive optics beam control laboratory, develop a simple scoring system, perform review of previous development work on the IRU, upgrade jitter control algorithms, provide optical cage control, and replace the collimator with a new collimator from ATA.
Keywords Inertial Reference Unit
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