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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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Although structural optimization and integrated modeling do much to enable the<br />

design of complex structures like space-based interferometers there is a lack of ap-<br />

plication of robust design to this problem in the literature. Structural optimization<br />

has been applied to the opto-mechanical jitter problem presented by interferome-<br />

ters, but robust design techniques have not. Instead, the robust design literature is<br />

generally concerned <strong>with</strong> truss-sizing problems for mass minimization or static dis-<br />

placement reduction and not <strong>with</strong> dynamic cost functions such as optical path jitter.<br />

If space-based interferometers are to be designed and launched based on simulation<br />

predictions alone, model uncertainty must be considered during the design process.<br />

However, in order to achieve robustness, a system sacrifices nominal performance.<br />

Therefore, robust design techniques reach their limitation when performance require-<br />

ments are aggressive and uncertainty is high. In this thesis both the application of<br />

robust optimization to SCI design and a technique that can be applied to problems<br />

that lie beyond the limits of robust design are presented.<br />

1.4 Thesis Roadmap<br />

A design methodology that extends robust design techniques for application to high-<br />

performance, high-risk systems such as space-based interferometers is developed. In<br />

this chapter, background information on space-based interferometry is presented and<br />

motivates the need for an extension of current design techniques. A review of relevant<br />

literature is included.<br />

In <strong>Chapter</strong> 2, <strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Tailoring</strong>, or the optimization of a structure to min-<br />

imize performance variance alone, is discussed. A simple model of a structurally-<br />

connected interferometer, referred to throughout as the development model, is in-<br />

troduced and discussed in detail. Included in the model are the structure, optical<br />

performance, and disturbance sources. The performance metric is RMS OPD, and<br />

methods for obtaining its gradient <strong>with</strong> respect to the design parameters are dis-<br />

cussed. In addition, an overview of two popular optimization methods, sequential<br />

quadratic programming and simulated annealing, is given. These algorithms are used<br />

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