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The AI4AO project aims to enhance adaptive optics by integrating advanced artificial intelligence to create more sensitive, robust, and autonomous systems. Through hardware–software co-design of wavefront sensors, AI-based phase reconstruction, and predictive control, the project seeks to overcome current AO limitations and enable high-resolution imaging for astronomy and space surveillance. Its outcomes will support next-generation facilities such as the ELT and the PROVIDENCE platform.
We will develop advanced AI controllers for AO, data-fusion, and predictive world-model approaches.
We will explore non-linear WFS concepts using deep learning and optical co-design, and assess focal-plane sensing strategies to maximize robustness and sensitivity under severe turbulence.
We will integrate the new AI algorithms into real-time AO pipelines, optimizing computation, latency, and hardware architectures (GPU/FPGA) for operational on-sky use.
We will validate the developed sensing and control strategies on sky using AO4FEELINGS and PAPYRUS, demonstrating performance gains and operational readiness for ELT/PROVIDENCE-class systems.
Contact us at benoit.neichel@lam.fr