Authors

B. LeRoux, K. ElHadi, M. NDiaye, M. Gray

Affiliations

Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)

Abstract

Large aperture telescope adaptive optics incorporates several deformable and active mirrors. Several options have been proposed for several DM adaptive optics systems. We study an optimal control approach for these woofer tweeter systems based on a Kalman filtering method. This approach allows to share out the spatial energy of correction between the mirrors and to deal with different temporal response time. The approach is presented and a validation of the control method is carried out in a numerical simulation. We finally present the experimental validation of such control solutions for woofer-tweeter systems. The validation bench and the optical components are presented and the first experimental results are shown.