Adaptive periodic error correction for Heidenhain tape encoders

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Aug 2008

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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II. Edited by Stepp, Larry M.; Gilmozzi, Roberto. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7012, p

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Heidenhain position tape encoders are in use on almost all modern telescopes with excellent results. Performance of these systems can be limited by minor mechanical misalignments between the tape and read head causing errors at the grating period. The first and second harmonics of the measured signal are the dominant errors, and have a varying frequency dependant on axis rate. When the error spectrum is within the mount servo bandwidth it results in periodic telescope pointing jitter. This paper will describe an adaptive error correction using elliptic interpolation of the raw signals, based on the well known compensation technique developed by Heydemann [1]. The approach allows the compensation to track in real time with no need of a large static look-up table, or frequent calibrations. This paper also presents the results obtained after applying this approach on data measured on the SOAR telescope.

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