Bibcode
Sabater, J.; Torres, S.; Garzón, F.; Gómez, J. M.
Referencia bibliográfica
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Volume 4, id. 034001 (2018).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2018
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
MIRADAS is a near-infrared multiobject echelle spectrograph operating at
spectral resolution R = 20,000 over the 1 to 2.5 μm bandpass for
Gran Telescopio Canarias. It possesses a multiplexing system with 12
cryogenic robotic probe arms, each capable of independently selecting a
user-defined target in the instrument field of view. The arms are
distributed around a circular bench, becoming a very packed workspace
when all of them are in simultaneous operation. Therefore, their motions
have to be carefully coordinated. We propose here a motion planning
method for the MIRADAS probe arms. Our offline algorithm relies on
roadmaps comprising alternative paths, which are discretized in a
state-time space. The determination of collision-free trajectories in
such space is achieved by means of a graph-search technique. The
approach considers the constraints imposed by the particular
architecture of the probe arms as well as the limitations of the
commercial off-the-shelf motor controllers used in the mechanical
design. We test our solution with real science targets and a typical
MIRADAS scenario presenting some instances of the two identified
collision conflicts that can arise between any pair of probe arms.
Experiments show the method is versatile enough to compute trajectories
fulfilling the requirements.
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