Herschel-SPIRE satellite instrument: configurable on-board software for autonomous and real time operation

Scige J. Liu; Sergio Molinari; Anna Maria Di Giorgio; Stefano Pezzuto; Sunil Sidher; Pasquale Cerulli-Irelli; Ken King

doi:10.1117/12.926314

21 September 2012 Herschel-SPIRE satellite instrument: configurable on-board software for autonomous and real time operation

Scige J. Liu, Sergio Molinari, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Stefano Pezzuto, Sunil Sidher, Pasquale Cerulli-Irelli, Ken King

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Proceedings Volume 8442, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 844245 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926314
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Herschel SPIRE On-Board Software (OBS) is presented. This real time operational software controls the scientific data transmission and keeps a control layer between the SPIRE Mission Timeline (MTL) and the real instruments status. It embeds a multithreaded engine that interprets control procedures for the detector and mechanism subsystems. An autonomous monitoring agent keeps control of subsystems status, and takes local decisions based on pre-loaded reaction maps. The behaviour of low level system functions is configurable remotely via the reactions maps and control procedures.

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Scige J. Liu, Sergio Molinari, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Stefano Pezzuto, Sunil Sidher, Pasquale Cerulli-Irelli, and Ken King "Herschel-SPIRE satellite instrument: configurable on-board software for autonomous and real time operation", Proc. SPIE 8442, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 844245 (21 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926314

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