The Giant Magellan Telescope has a seven-segment Adaptive Secondary Mirror (ASM) System that must meet stringent surface error performance requirements while tracking and offloading. The first hexapod of the M2 Positioner has been constructed and tested by AdOptica using an attocube-based laser truss as a truth sensor. Modeling, analysis, test results are presented, including an actuator model, control structure interaction analysis, attocube sensor and actuator noise models, modal identification, and performance measurements. The test results show that the 10nm RMS surface error requirement due to actuator-based noise sources is verified.
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