@inproceedings{2a4555afbd7942b99fee3c4e32504649,
title = "The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope",
abstract = "MANIFEST is a fibre feed system for the Giant Magellan Telescope that, coupled to the seeing-limited instruments GMACS and G-CLEF, offers qualitative and quantitative gains over each instrument's native capabilities in terms of multiplex, field of view, and resolution. The MANIFEST instrument concept is based on a system of semi-autonomous probes called {"}Starbugs{"} that hold and position hundreds of optical fibre IFUs under a glass field plate placed at the GMT Cassegrain focal plane. The Starbug probes feature co-axial piezoceramic tubes that, via the application of appropriate AC waveforms, contract or bend, providing a discrete stepping motion. Simultaneous positioning of all Starbugs is achieved via a closed-loop metrology system.",
keywords = "fibre positioner, Starbugs, fibre robots, GMT",
author = "Lawrence, {Jon S.} and Brown, {David M.} and Jurek Brzeski and Scott Case and Matthew Colless and Tony Farrell and Luke Gers and James Gilbert and Michael Goodwin and George Jacoby and Hopkins, {Andrew M.} and Michael Ireland and Kyler Kuehn and Lorente, {Nuria P. F.} and Stan Miziarski and Rolf Muller and Vijay Nichani and Azizi Rakman and Samuel Richards and Will Saunders and Staszak, {Nick F.} and Julia Tims and Minh Vuong and Lew Waller",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2055742",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819496157",
volume = "9147",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
pages = "914794--1--914794--10",
editor = "Ramsay, {Suzanne K.} and McLean, {Ian S.} and Hideki Takami",
booktitle = "Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy V",
address = "United States",
note = "5th Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy ; Conference date: 22-06-2014 Through 26-06-2014",
}