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Figuring out the sun's location is the easiest part of the problem. The hard part is that each mirror is a big, floppy slab that moves with wind, temperature, g
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
Figuring out the sun's location is the easiest part of the problem. The hard part is that each mirror is a big, floppy slab that moves with wind, temperature, gear backlash, mechanical wear, rain/hail, and ground settling.
The so-called "AI" here is really just a clever way to use closed-loop control so that the above factors don't matter much.
(Side note: A large amount of "AI" these days just amounts to changing open-loop mechanisms to closed-loop, often by using computer vision as the state sensor. 3D printers, for example could become much more precise with no mechanical improvements if they did this. Probably some have already done so.)