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Table 1

Simulations parameters.

Telescope “VLT”

Parameter Value Units
Telescope diameter 8 m
Obstruction ratio 14 percent
Sampling frequency 1000 Hz
Active actuators 1364 actuators
PWFS subapertures 41 × 41 apertures
PWFS modulation 0 λ/D
Photon flux 0/9 mag 1.25 × 108/3.1 × 104 photons/frame/aperture
DM coupling 0.3 percent
DM influence functions “Gaussian”
WFS wavelength 0.85 μm
Science camera wavelength 1.65 μm

Telescope “ELT”

Telescope diameter 40 m
Obstruction ratio 30 percent
Sampling frequency 1000 Hz
Active actuators 10556 actuators
PWFS subapertures 121×121 apertures
PWFS modulation 2 λ/D
Photon flux 0th mag 2.7 × 109 photons/frame/aperture
DM coupling 0.3 percent
DM influence functions “Gaussian”
WFS wavelength 0.85 μm
Science camera wavelength 1.65 μm

Atmosphere parameters

Fried parameter 16 cm at 500 nm
Number of layers 3
Layer altitudes 0/4/10 km
50/35/15 percent (%)
Wind speeds 10/26/35 m/s
Wind directions 0/45/180 degrees
Lo (m) 30/30/30 m

PO4AO parameters

Planning horizon (H) 4 steps
Past DM commands (m) 15 commands
Past WFS measurements (k) 15 frames
CNN ensemble size 5
Dynamics iterations/episode 15 steps
Policy iterations/episode 10 steps
Training mini batch size 32

Fixed CNN parameters

Number of conv. layers 3 layers
Filter size 3×3 pixels
Padding 1 pixels
Activation functions Leaky ReLU

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