Alignment Implementation for Manufacturing using Fringe Analysis Slope Technique (AIMFAST) 2018.11.20
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
AIMFAST is a software code used to align facets on a dish or heliostat solar concentrator to a specific aimpoint strategy to minimize peak fluxes and maximize system optical performance. AIMFAST uses a large monitor or projection screen to display fringe patterns, and a machine vision camera to image the reflection of these patterns in the subject dish mirrors. From these images, a detailed map of surface normals can be generated and compared to design or fitted mirror shapes. This fitted comparison is then used to develop a single vector representing the orientation of the facets relative to the design orientation and provide near-real-time adjustment information to a communicating computer. The communicating computer can display adjustments or directly interface with adjustment tools.
- Short Name / Acronym:
- AIMFAST
- Project Type:
- Closed Source
- Site Accession Number:
- SCR 1419.2
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- License(s):
- Other (Commercial or Open-Source)
- Programming Language(s):
- MATLAB
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOEPrimary Award/Contract Number:NA0003525
- DOE Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- Code ID:
- 22438
- OSTI ID:
- code-22438
- Country of Origin:
- United States
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