@inproceedings{b71c813e951145ccb1d7e937b055b7a0,
title = "TAIPAN instrument fibre positioner and Starbug robots: engineering overview",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Fibre positioning systems, GMT, MANIFEST, Starbugs, TAIPAN, UKST",
author = "Staszak, {Nicholas F.} and Jon Lawrence and Brown, {David M.} and Rebecca Brown and Ross Zhelem and Michael Goodwin and Kyler Kuehn and Lorente, {Nuria P F} and Vijay Nichani and Lew Waller and Scott Case and Robert Content and Hopkins, {Andrew M.} and Urs Klauser and Naveen Pai and Rolf Mueller and Slavko Mali and Vuong, {Minh V.}",
note = "Copyright 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited.; Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II ; Conference date: 26-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2233583",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510602038",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "1--20",
editor = "Ram{\'o}n Navarro and Burge, {James H.}",
booktitle = "Advances in optical and mechanical technologies for telescopes and instrumentation II",
address = "United States",
}