In this talk I’ll present the Instrumentation Control Group of INAF-OATs focusing on the experiences gathered by the group in participating in several national and international projects spanning a period of several decades in the field of astronomical instrumentation. The know-how achieved covers, among others, topics related to control software, control electronics, software system...
INAF IAPS research groups have a long time expertise in the production of scientific instrumentation for space missions. Thanks to ASI funding and in collaboration with the national industries leader in the space sector, IAPS, the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology of INAF, often participates in the development of control electronics for space instrumentation, with direct...
In this presentation I will outline the activities of the group at INAF-OATo working on avionics and control SW for space applications. I will present the background of the participants, our activities in the last years (mainly centered on the design of the Warm Electronics Units and on the Application SW for the Instrument control unit for the NISP instrument on board the Euclid mission), and...
EFISOFT is a french national structure with some similarities with the TETIS initiative. The structure does include seven french laboratories, all are involved in one or several ELT instrument (HARMONI, MICADO, MAORY, MOSAIC and HIRES). More than a network, EFISOFT is supported by the cnrs/insu (inaf equivalent), thanks to convention ratified between universities. Its main goals is to...
In INAF-OAPd there is a long time experience in the development of control software for (mostly) ground-based Optical and Near Infra-Red astronomical instrumentation and telescopes. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the past activities of the INAF-OAPd Control SW Group and will then introduce our current projects, all while trying to highlight aspects relevant to this Workshop.
We provide an overview of the software and control activities of the group, active in the last three decades in the field of telescopes and astronomical instrumentation control, in past and current projects. These works include deeply related tasks of control software, control electronics and control engineering as well as data handling activities, performance monitoring and control algorithms...
The Arcetri AO group, since its inception an undefined number of decades ago, has been developing software for high-resolution systems under a variety of frameworks and design methods. The main topics can be characterized as instrument control software, offline data analysis, laboratory software, and AO simulations. I will present an overview of past and current projects, of how our design...
ESO is in the process of implementing a new instrument software framework with the aim to help instrument developers in building the control systems for future VLT and ELT instruments. The framework, that is still in a development phase, is adopting many new technologies according to the ELT development standards but reusing proved concepts from its predecessor at the VLT. This project is...
ESPRESSO is a fiber-fed, high-resolution, cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph installed at the ESO VLT-Cerro Paranal observatory. Since it is one of the latest instruments installed at VLT, it has been an ideal laboratory to explore the new technologies envisaged for the forthcoming ELT telescope. The ESPRESSO control software is based on the VLT Control Software and uses the IC0 Field Bus...
We present the current status of the instrument control software of MAORY, the Multi-conjugated Adaptive Optics RelaY module for the Extremely Large Telescope.
MAORY is currently approaching the Preliminary Design Review (Apr 2021) and will serve as AO module for the first light instrument MICADO and for a future second instrument.
In particular first we give an overview of the functions...
The presentation will be organised in two main parts which are respectively an introduction covering general PA/QA topics, including a short overview of the ECSS Standards, and a specialised part addressing SW PA/QA principles, in which the ECSS related to the SW Product & Quality Assurance will be detailed.
The Department of Astrophysics at Uni Vienna are a provider of flight software for scientific instrumentation. A description of specific challenges in the development of such SW is given and we show how some of these are mastered with the help of the CORDET framework. We explain what it covers and how to get started.
The EUCLID mission will capture a 3D image of the distribution of dark and baryonic matter from which the acceleration of the Universe will be measured to the percent level accuracy. Combining weak gravitational-lensing patterns from intrinsic alignments of galaxies and galaxy clustering probes, it will reveal signatures of the physical processes responsible for the expansion and the...
A brief description of the workflow followed during EUCLID NISP-ICU ASW development phases.Hardware platforms, SW development tools and future prospectives will be presented.
ECSS, aka “European Cooperation for Space Standardization”, is a consolidated (over 25 years of existence) set of standards devoted to all aspects of Space Projects from Management to Product Assurance and Engineering and even Sustainability (e.g. space debris and planetary protection). Batteries, finite element models, cables, risk management, adhesive stuff... all is there and anyone...
The ASTRI-Horn Cherenkov telescope, installed at Serra La Nave on the Mount Etna (Italy), has been developed by INAF in the context of the ”Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana” (ASTRI) Project. It is the INAF proposed prototype for the Small Size class of Telescopes of the future Cherenkov
Telescope Array (CTA) and for the INAF Mini Array which will be installed at the...
The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Mini-Array consist of nine identical dual-mirrors Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes that will be installed at the site of the Teide Observatory in Tenerife (Spain). The Mini-Array operation phase consists of two distinct periods: during the first three years, the Mini-Array will carry out dedicated science programs defined by...
Tango Controls is a free open source device-oriented controls toolkit for controlling any kind of hardware or software and building SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems. Tango Controls is operating system independent and supports C++, Java and Python for all the components. It has been currently adopted as the software control framework in the main European synchrotrons...
Agile methodologies are becoming more and more popular while approaching the development of big software systems. Not only private software companies but also banks, telecommunications and transportation companies, health care, and others moved to this kind of approach to managing their business. SAFe is one of the possible frameworks for supporting this change and in particular, it is the one...
DISCOS (Development of the Italian Single-dish COntrol Software) is presently founded on a small group of people - endorsed by the UTG2 of the Scientific Directorate of INAF "National Division for Radioastronomy" - aimed at delivering the control software for the Italian radio telescopes. The core of the project was born several years ago, during the construction of the Sardinia Radio...
