Safety Control for Prime Focus Spectrograph

Ting Han Fan, Athindran Ramesh Kumar, Peter J. Ramadge

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Abstract

Prime Focus Spectrograph is a telescope system to be deployed in Hawaii. The system consists of roughly 2400 controllable observation units, which we call the cobras, and the cobra control problem is to reach the targets while avoiding collisions. We decompose this problem into cobra assignment and trajectory planning. The cobra assignment adopts an efficient near-optimal algorithm that maximizes the target acquisition and completely avoids final-position collisions by losing only 0.9% of the target acquisition. The trajectory planning uses a collision-based search which lowers the in-transit collisions to almost zero.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages269-274
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665417969
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2022 - Princeton, United States
Duration: Mar 9 2022Mar 11 2022

Publication series

Name2022 56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2022

Conference

Conference56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPrinceton
Period3/9/223/11/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems and Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems

Keywords

  • Assignment problem
  • Control with safety
  • Large-scale system control
  • Multi-agent trajectory planning

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