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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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precision telescope structure for mass and optical performance metrics such as line of<br />

sight and wavefront error [22]. Similar efforts have been made by JPL using structural<br />

and optical modeling tools developed in-house. Milman, Salama, and Wette optimized<br />

truss member areas and control gains to generate a Pareto optimal set of designs that<br />

minimize optical performance, control effort and system mass [89]. Combinatorial<br />

optimization of passive damper locations on an interferometer truss to minimize RMS<br />

OPD is presented by Joshi, Milman and Melody [62].<br />

As a result of this multidisciplinary approach to design and performance assess-<br />

ment the field of integrated modeling has been developed. An integrated model is<br />

a system design tool that includes the effects of cross-disciplinary sub-systems. The<br />

<strong>MIT</strong> Space Systems Laboratory, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Goddard<br />

Space Flight Center and Ball Aerospace have demonstrated the role of integrated<br />

models in performance analysis and design of precision space telescopes. Mosier et<br />

al. use an integrated model of the Next-Generation Space Telescope (NGST) to trade<br />

line of sight (LOS) pointing error against reaction wheel speed and isolation corner<br />

frequency [92]. Miller and de Weck present the DOCS (disturbance-structures-optics-<br />

controls) integrated modeling environment and apply it to models of NEXUS and<br />

NGST [35, 88]. Manil and Leiber apply Ball Aerospace integrated modeling tools to<br />

a ground telescope proposed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) [78]. The<br />

integrated telescope model includes structural and optical dynamics, active mirror<br />

control and environmental effects. Other examples of Ball implementation include<br />

application to a TPF coronograph model [74, 75]. At JPL the integrated modeling<br />

efforts are focused on SIM [49] and include attempts to validate the methodology on<br />

an interferometer testbed [85, 84].<br />

The combination of structural optimization and integrated modeling may lead<br />

to high-performance designs, but if the models that are used in the optimization<br />

are not accurate the system that is ultimately built is not guaranteed to perform<br />

as predicted. Historically models have been used to help engineers understand the<br />

physical behavior of their system. Models are built of a piece of hardware and then<br />

predictions are compared to test data and model updating techniques are employed<br />

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