Abstract
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.
- Developers:
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Yellowhair, Julius [1] ; Andraka, Charles [1]
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Release Date:
- 2018-12-12
- Project Type:
- Closed Source
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Programming Languages:
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MATLAB
- Version:
- 2018.11.20
- Licenses:
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Other (Commercial or Open-Source): https://ip.sandia.gov/contact-form
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOEPrimary Award/Contract Number:NA0003525
- Code ID:
- 22438
- Site Accession Number:
- SCR 1419.2
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Yellowhair, Julius, and Andraka, Charles E.
Alignment Implementation for Manufacturing using Fringe Analysis Slope Technique (AIMFAST) 2018.11.20.
Computer Software.
USDOE.
12 Dec. 2018.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20190221.1.
Yellowhair, Julius, & Andraka, Charles E.
(2018, December 12).
Alignment Implementation for Manufacturing using Fringe Analysis Slope Technique (AIMFAST) 2018.11.20.
[Computer software].
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190221.1.
Yellowhair, Julius, and Andraka, Charles E.
"Alignment Implementation for Manufacturing using Fringe Analysis Slope Technique (AIMFAST) 2018.11.20." Computer software.
December 12, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190221.1.
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title = {Alignment Implementation for Manufacturing using Fringe Analysis Slope Technique (AIMFAST) 2018.11.20},
author = {Yellowhair, Julius and Andraka, Charles E.},
abstractNote = {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. },
doi = {10.11578/dc.20190221.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190221.1},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190221.1}},
year = {2018},
month = {dec}
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