Participants in StarTiger's Autonomous Refocusing Mechanism System, ARMES, project to develop an autofocus system for space-based imagers, able to bring the scene before them into sharp focus in a hundredth of second or less. Experts were recruited from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics Astronomical Observatory of Rome, Italy’s Antares Consortium, Germany’s DLR space agency, the Dutch Cosine company, and the Italian CGS company, which also hosted the team at the firm’s Benevento site in southern Italy.