Experimental testing of autonomous alignment of a six-degree-of-freedom optical system

Alex Ballantyne; Louis J. Palumbo; Michelle A. Thomas; Gary Golnik

doi:10.1117/12.160404

15 October 1993 Experimental testing of autonomous alignment of a six-degree-of-freedom optical system

Alex Ballantyne, Louis J. Palumbo, Michelle A. Thomas, Gary Golnik

Proceedings Volume 1996, Optical Alignment; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.160404
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Experimental testing of the Downhill Simplex optimization algorithm is described in application to alignment of optical systems. A bench top experiment was designed to test the algorithm in the presence of real noise effects. A methodology of optimum design of merit functions for the algorithm is described and test data presented.

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Alex Ballantyne, Louis J. Palumbo, Michelle A. Thomas, and Gary Golnik "Experimental testing of autonomous alignment of a six-degree-of-freedom optical system", Proc. SPIE 1996, Optical Alignment, (15 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.160404

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