The large sky area multi-object fiber spectroscopic telescope (LAMOST) is an innovative reflecting schmidt telescope,
promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of several ten-thousands of spectra per night. By using the parallel
controllable fiber positioning technique, LAMOST makes reconfiguration of fibers accurately according to the positions
of objects in minutes and fine adjusting the fibers. During telescope observation period, each optical fiber unit positional
accuracy directly determines the quality of subsequent spectrum acqusition, yet for real-time optical fiber positional
accuracy, there only exists an internal information feedback which focus on the corresponding stepper motor driving
conditions, however, this available information is not comprehensive, it can not offer the actual positional information
for each fiber unit. Considering the LAMOST on-site environment, a novel real-time optical fiber positional accuracy
detection system which can be integrated in the existing observation and control system need to be developed to solve
this problem. During the observation interval, this system can offer a comprehensive and effective information feedback
about the focal optical fiber positional accuracy. Based on this feedback, the observation assistants can properly adjust
the observation strategies to ensure the effectiveness and accuracy of acquired spectrum. Furthermore, this fiber
positional accuracy feedback can provide prior spectral quality information to the spectral processing personnel and
optimal the spectrum processing efficiency.
The large sky area multi-object fiber spectroscopic telescope (LAMOST) is an innovative reflecting schmidt
telescope, promising a very high spectrum acquiring rate of several ten-thousands of spectra per night. By using the
parallel controllable fiber positioning technique, LAMOST makes reconfiguration of fibers accurately according to
the positions of objects in minutes and fine adjusting the fibers. As a key problem, High precision positioning
detection of LAMOST fiber positioning unit has always been highly regarded and some detection schemes have
been proposed. Among these, active detection method, which determines the final accurate position of optical fiber
end with the help of lighting the fiber, has been most widely researched, but this kind of method could not be applied
in LAMOST real-time observation because it needs projecting light into fiber. A novel detection idea exploiting the
technique of template matching is presented in this paper. As we know, final position of a specific fiber end can be
easily inferred by its corresponding revolving angles of the central revolving axle and bias revolving axle in double
revolving style, so the key point in this problem is converted to the accurate determination of these revolving angles.
Template matching technique are explored to acquire the matching parameters for its real-time collected imagery,
and thus determine the corresponding revolving angle of the central revolving axle and bias revolving axle
respectively. Experiments results obtained with data acquired from LAMOST site are used to verify the feasibility
and effectiveness of this novel method.
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