Abstract

We apply a U-Net-based convolutional neural network (NN) architecture to the problem of predictive adaptive optics (AO) for tracking and imaging fast-moving targets, such as satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). We show that the fine-tuned NN is able to achieve an approximately 50% reduction in mean-squared wavefront error over non-predictive approaches while predicting up to eight frames into the future. These results were obtained when the NN, trained mostly on simulated data, tested its performance on 1 kHz Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor data collected in open-loop at the Advanced Electro-Optical System facility at Haleakala Observatory while the telescope tracked a naturally illuminated piece of LEO space debris. We report, to our knowledge, the first successful test of a NN for the predictive AO application using on-sky data, as well as the first time such a network has been developed for the more stressing space tracking application.

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