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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Neil A. Ives, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Chia-hsin Suen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin S. Leung, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Marechal, Tarzana, CA (US);
Ivan Bekey, Annandale, VA (US);
David C. Straw, Washington, DC (US);
Maribeth Mason, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Neil A. Ives, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Chia-Hsin Suen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin S. Leung, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Marechal, Tarzana, CA (US);
Ivan Bekey, Annandale, VA (US);
David C. Straw, Washington, DC (US);
Maribeth Mason, Santa Monica, CA (US);
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method determines the shape of a surface that preferably is a deployed space-based adaptive flexible membrane antenna, using patterned projections, image capturing, and membrane shape processing for producing membrane shape data describing the contour of the surface of the membrane with the membrane shape data then preferably used as inputs for a feedback control actuation system for deforming the membrane to a desired shaped so as to maintain the three-dimensional shape of the membrane in the desired shape.