From authors Eric Saunders, Tim Naylor & Alasdair Allan, the poster ‘An Autonomous Adaptive Scheduling Agent for Period Searching’ is listed as part of the ‘Current facilities and new instruments’ session.

Abstract: What is the best way to practically observe undersampled, periodic, time-varying phenomena using a network of robotic telescopes? We implement an autonomous software agent that uses an optimal geometric sampling technique to cover the period range of interest, but additionally implements proactive behaviour that maximises the optimality of the dataset in the face of an uncertain and changing operating environment. The agent has been successfully demonstrated using the three 2m robotic Faulkes North, Faulkes South, and Liverpool Telescopes.

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