TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots : engineering overview

N.F. Staszak; J. Lawrence; D.M. Brown; R. Brown; R. Zhelem; M. Goodwin; K. Kuehn; N.P.F. Lorente; V. Nichani; L. Waller; S. Case; R. Content; A.M. Hopkins; U. Klauser; N. Pai; R. Mueller; S. Mali; M.V. Vuong

doi:10.1117/12.2233583

TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots : engineering overview

N.F. Staszak, J. Lawrence, D.M. Brown, R. Brown, R. Zhelem, M. Goodwin, K. Kuehn, N.P.F. Lorente, V. Nichani, L. Waller, S. Case, R. Content, A.M. Hopkins, U. Klauser, N. Pai, R. Mueller, S. Mali, M.V. Vuong

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TAIPAN will conduct a stellar and galaxy survey of the Southern sky. The TAIPAN positioner is being developed as a prototype for the MANIFEST instrument on the GMT. The design for TAIPAN incorporates 150 optical fibres (with an upgrade path to 300) situated within independently controlled robotic positioners known as Starbugs. Starbugs allow precise parallel positioning of individual fibres, thus significantly reducing instrument configuration time and increasing the amount of observing time. Presented is an engineering overview of the UKST upgrade of the completely new Instrument Spider Assembly utilized to support the Starbug Fibre Positioning Robot and current status of the Starbug itself.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II
Editors	Ramon Navarro, James H. Burge
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	SPIE
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510602045
ISBN (Print)	9781510602038
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233583
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Staszak, N. F., Lawrence, J., Brown, D. M., Brown, R., Zhelem, R., Goodwin, M., Kuehn, K., Lorente, N. P. F., Nichani, V., Waller, L., Case, S., Content, R., Hopkins, A. M., Klauser, U., Pai, N., Mueller, R., Mali, S., & Vuong, M. V. (2016). TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots : engineering overview. In R. Navarro, & J. H. Burge (Eds.), Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233583

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