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\section{Introduction}  The Automated Alignment System (AAS) and Back End Active Stabilization of Shear and Tilt (BEASST) together have been proposed to align the beam trains in the MROI and to keep these aligned during the night. A design for the AAS went through a Conceptual Design Review (CDR) and some subsystems have been prototyped. We propose here a modification to the AAS concept which will allow the existing goals to be met while addressing drifts in alignment during the night more rapidly and robustly. At the same time, some of the constraints on the BEASST system can be relaxed, allowing a higher-performance system to be built more quickly.  The use of parts of the AAS to allow for the measurement of "internal fringes" in the MROI is separate function that we do not discuss here. Importantly, the proposed modification presented here does not impact that additional functionality.  \section{Functional requirements}  The functions of the combined AAS and BEASST systems (hereafter collectively referred as ``the AAS'' since they can be considered to be a single system addressing alignment needs) can be briefly described as:  \begin{enumerate}  \item When when  a new beam train is installed or configured, the AAS must allow for coarse (and possibly manual) alignment of the beam train to allow an alignment beam to pass between the beam combining area (BCA) and the unit telescope mount (UTM) without vignetting. vignetting;  \item At at  the beginning of each observing night, the AAS must re-align the beam train so that beams of starlight arriving at the beam combiners meet the tilt and shear error budget. budget;  \item During during  the night, the AAS must make fine adjustments to the alignment so that the tilt and shear error budget is maintained in the presence of thermal drifts. drifts, typically introduced by optics in temperature unstable environments;  \item When when  a new beam train is installed or configured, the AAS must allow for measurement of the "piston" term due to the optical path between the beam combiners and the telescopes, in order to allow for rapid acquisition of stellar fringes. fringes;  \item At at  the beginning of the night, the AAS must allow the pathlength differences between the fringe tracker and the science instrument to be measured so that these can be equalized. \end{enumerate}  \section{Outline of the existing scheme}