The construction of the E-ELT, a revolutionary 40m class telescope was launched by the European Southern Observatory in December 2014. ONERA is at the core of the achievement of the first adaptive optics instruments for the telescope and its advanced instrumentation... For 10 years, using its own funding, ONERA has contributed to major developments in terms of components and designs
In addition to the benefits for fundamental physics, this success reinforces ONERA'sexpertise in embeddable atomic gravimetry because it uses the same technology based on cold atoms and sturdy lasers. Notes
In the aviation world, adaptive control became a fleeting success in the 1970s to quickly give way, due to unfortunate experiments, to the robust control techniques that we still know today and due to which Onera'sexpertise is widely recognized. However, in the near future we can expect a successful combination of adaptive techniques and robust control techniques