Control software and electronics architecture design in the framework of the E-ELT instrumentation

P. Di Marcantonio; I. Coretti; R. Cirami; M. Comari; P. Santin; M. Pucillo

doi:10.1117/12.855959

13 July 2010 Control software and electronics architecture design in the framework of the E-ELT instrumentation

P. Di Marcantonio, I. Coretti, R. Cirami, M. Comari, P. Santin, M. Pucillo

Proceedings Volume 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy; 774002 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855959
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

During the last years the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in collaboration with other European astronomical institutes, has started several feasibility studies for the E-ELT (European-Extremely Large Telescope) instrumentation and post-focal adaptive optics. The goal is to create a flexible suite of instruments to deal with the wide variety of scientific questions astronomers would like to see solved in the coming decades. In this framework INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (INAF-AOTs) is currently responsible of carrying out the analysis and the preliminary study of the architecture of the electronics and control software of three instruments: CODEX (control software and electronics) and OPTIMOS-EVE/OPTIMOS-DIORAMAS (control software). To cope with the increased complexity and new requirements for stability, precision, real-time latency and communications among sub-systems imposed by these instruments, new solutions have been investigated by our group. In this paper we present the proposed software and electronics architecture based on a distributed common framework centered on the Component/Container model that uses OPC Unified Architecture as a standard layer to communicate with COTS components of three different vendors. We describe three working prototypes that have been set-up in our laboratory and discuss their performances, integration complexity and ease of deployment.

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P. Di Marcantonio, I. Coretti, R. Cirami, M. Comari, P. Santin, and M. Pucillo "Control software and electronics architecture design in the framework of the E-ELT instrumentation", Proc. SPIE 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy, 774002 (13 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855959

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