Conveners
Session 7: Control software
- Anna Maria Di Giorgio
INAF is leader in the Instrument Control Software development of telescope instruments at large, in particular ESO ones.
Within the framework of the TETIS (TEchnologies for Telescopes and Instrument control Software) Coordination Unit, we present the members of OAPD and OATS and the projects in which they are involved.
Then, we briefly state the several common tasks faced by the teams, and...
Adaptive Optics (AO) has become crucial in present astronomy, to reach diffraction-limited imaging of astronomical targets on large ground-based telescopes. AO correction loops usually need to be operating at very high frequencies, of the order of 1 kHz, corresponding to the typical coherence timescale of the atmospheric turbulence. Hence, they require very fast real-time control (RTC)...
An overview of the contribution given by INAF to the development of the SKAO Observatory Management and Control (OMC) software is given. The staff from three INAF structures (OAA, OAAb and OATs) is mainly involved in the development of the Local Monitoring and Control of the Central Signal Processor (CSP.LMC) and of the UIs generation platform called Taranta, which produces engineering...
The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international collaboration led by INAF and devoted to imaging atmospheric Cherenkov light for very-high γ-ray astronomy. The project is deploying an array of 9 4-m class Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, most sensitive to γ-ray radiation above 1 TeV. The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition...
Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is an increasingly important part of modern software development for astronomy. For space projects ESA enforces through ECSS standards strict SQA procedures for the software operating on their space missions, and in the last few years also ground based projects have been pressed to provide higher quality software for their instruments, since stakeholders, like...
An overview of the contribution given by INAF to the development of real time control SW for space instrumentation: starting from the design phase up to the challenges of space SW validation activities. The experience acquired working with different processors for different missions (Euclid, PLATO, ARIEL, Athena) will be summarized, providing discussion points on similarities with control SW...
