The Thirty Meter Telescope site testing robotic computer system
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- Stepp, Larry M.
Abstract
The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is currently testing six remote sites as candidates for the final location of the telescope. Each site has several instruments, including seeing monitors, weather stations, and turbulence profile measuring systems, each of which is computer controlled. As the sites are remote (usually hours from the nearest town), they requires a system that can control the operations of all the varied subsystems, keep the systems safe from damage and recover from errors during operation. The robotic system must also be robust enough to operate without human intervention and when internet connections are lost. It is also critical that a data archiving system diligently records all data as gathered. This paper is a discussion of the TMT site testing robotic computer system as implemented.
Additional Information
© 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the TMT partner institutions. They are the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the California Institute of Technology and the University of California. This work was supported, as well, by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by AURA under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the National Research Council of Canada.Attached Files
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- Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA)
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
- Caltech
- University of California
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
- NSF
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- National Research Council of Canada
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2019-07-15Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Thirty Meter Telescope
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 6267