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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2003
Dimitry Gorinevsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tristram T. Hyde, Severna Park, MD (US);
Lawrence P. Davis, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Dimitry Gorinevsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tristram T. Hyde, Severna Park, MD (US);
Lawrence P. Davis, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A control system is provided for controlling the shape of a flexible electromagnetic radiation structure. The control system includes a plurality of actuators and a plurality of computational elements. Each of the plurality of actuators is coupled to a portion of the radiation structure and can be selectively actuated by the plurality of computational elements. Thus, the plurality of actuators and the plurality of computational elements provide control of the flexible electromagnetic radiation structure shape. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of computational elements controls one section of the flexible electromagnetic radiation structure. Thus each of the plurality of computational elements receives controls the one or more of the plurality of actuator within its section. Together, the plurality of computational elements provide a distributed control network for the radiation structure. The control system thus provides the ability to accurately control and shape a flexible electromagnetic radiation structure.