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The VIRMOS Consortium has the task to design and manufacture two spectrographs for ESO VLT, VIMOS (Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph) and NIRMOS (Near Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph). This paper describes how the Mask Manufacturing Unit…
VIMOS and NIRMOS are two multi Object Spectrographs being developed for the VLT. Their main scientific characteristic is the high multiplexing capability, allowing to obtain up to 800 spectra per exposure. To achieve such a high efficiency,…
VIMOS (VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph) is a multi-object imaging spectrograph installed at the VLT (Very large Telescope) at the ESO (European Southern Observatory) Paranal Observatory, especially suited for survey work. VIMOS is…
The main scientific characteristic of VIMOS (VIsible Multi Object Spectrograph, to be placed on ESO Very Large Telescope) is its high multiplexing capability, allowing astronomers to obtain up to 800 spectra per exposure. To fully exploit…
In this diploma thesis, the mathematical model of a multi-product manufacturing unit will be presented. The unit consists of a set of three conveyors, a robot, a lathe, a milling machine, an assembly machine, and a painting machine.…
A custom-built mask aligner (CBMA), which fundamentally covers all the key features of a commercial mask aligner, while being low cost, light weight, and having low power consumption and high accuracy is constructed. The CBMA is comprised…
Research on the core of medium and high z clusters of galaxies can derive great benefits from integral field spectroscopy, and a key role in this respect will be played by the Integral Field Unit (IFU) being developed by the VIRMOS…
The PIP-II Machine Protection System (MPS) requires a dedicated set of tools for configuration control and management of the machine modes and beam modes of the accelerator. The protection system reacts to signals from various elements of…
A control model is typically classified into three forms: conceptual, mathematical and simulation (computer). This paper analyzes a conceptual modeling application with respect to an inventory management system. Today, most organizations…
Machine learning (ML) research and application often involve time-consuming steps such as model architecture prototyping, feature selection, and dataset preparation. To support these tasks, we introduce the Deep Fast Machine Learning Utils…
VLSI mask optimization is one of the most critical stages in manufacturability aware design, which is costly due to the complicated mask optimization and lithography simulation. Recent researches have shown prominent advantages of machine…
Two fibre integral field units (IFU) are being built in the SAAO fibre-lab for the Robert Stobie Spectrograph's visible arm and the future red arm. Each IFU sits in its own slit-mask cassette and is referred to as a slit-mask IFU (SMI).…
The MINSU(Mobile Inventory and Scanning Unit) algorithm uses the computational vision analysis method to record the residual quantity/fullness of the cabinet. To do so, it goes through a five-step method: object detection, foreground…
The In-Vessel Viewing System (IVVS) in ITER consists of six identical units which are deployed between pulses or during shutdown, to perform visual examination and metrology of plasma facing components. The system is housed in dedicated…
The Imaging Computational Microscope (ICM) is a suite of computational tools for automated analysis of functional imaging data that runs under the cross-platform MATLAB environment (The Mathworks, Inc.). ICM uses a semi-supervised…
The Fiber Optical Cable and Connector System, FOCCoS, subsystem of the Prime Focus Spectrograph, PFS, for Subaru telescope, is responsible to feed four spectrographs with a set of optical fibers cables. The light injection for each…
The customized multiple arrays are becoming vastly used in microarray experiments for varies purposes, mainly for its ability to handle a large quantity of data and output high quality results. However, experimenters who use customized…
Fabrication today relies on disparate, large machines spread across industrial facilities. These are operated by domain experts to construct and assemble artefacts in sequential steps from large numbers of parts. This traditional,…
In this brief report we propose a new design of a medical mask with a plasma layer, which provides both additional air filtration from microdrops, bacteria and viruses due to the electrostatic effect and self-disinfecting of surfaces by a…
The VIRMOS consortium of French and Italian Institutes (PI: O. Le Fevre, co-PI: G. Vettolani) is manufacturing two wide field imaging multi-object spectrographs for the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (VLT), with emphasis…