Design of a Theta/Phi fiber positioner robot for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Ricardo Araujo; Mohamed Bouri; Christopher Brandon; Stefane Caseiro; Denis Gillet; Loic Grossen; Luzius Kronig; Matin Macktoobian; Thomas O'Brien; Richard W. Pogge; Sarah Tuttle; Jean-Paul Kneib

doi:10.1117/12.2563234

13 December 2020 Design of a Theta/Phi fiber positioner robot for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Ricardo Araujo, Mohamed Bouri, Christopher Brandon, Stefane Caseiro, Denis Gillet, Loic Grossen, Luzius Kronig, Matin Macktoobian, Thomas O'Brien, Richard W. Pogge, Sarah Tuttle, Jean-Paul Kneib

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Proceedings Volume 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII; 1144790 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563234
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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of > 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of supermassive black holes across the Universe.1 This paper describes the design of the theta/phi fiber positioner robots that are being produced to be integrated in the Focal Plane System (FPS) of the SDSS-V telescopes. For each installation, 500 robots are being manufactured, more than 800 units have already been received from the manufacturer and validated. Mechanical, electronic and firmware designs are presented in the current paper in detail. We will expose the different iterations of the prototypes that were developed, built and tested and ultimately allowed to achieve the end version that meets the requested science requirements. The fiber positioner robot is carrying 3 optical fibers integrated into a single snowflake ferrule. Two of the fibers are science fibers connected to two different spectrographs, and the third fiber is used for metrology. The robot is capable of positioning the fibers with a planar accuracy better than 50 microns with a first blind move within its workspace of a diameter of 44.8mm. With a complementary fiber viewing camera (FVC) and the backlighted metrology fiber to perform a few small corrections moves, the positioner can reach a sub 5-micron precision on the fiber position.

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Ricardo Araujo, Mohamed Bouri, Christopher Brandon, Stefane Caseiro, Denis Gillet, Loic Grossen, Luzius Kronig, Matin Macktoobian, Thomas O'Brien, Richard W. Pogge, Sarah Tuttle, and Jean-Paul Kneib "Design of a Theta/Phi fiber positioner robot for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V", Proc. SPIE 11447, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII, 1144790 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2563234

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