Simultaneous control of multiple instruments at the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

Erik M. Johansson; Bret Goodrich

doi:10.1117/12.926441

24 September 2012 Simultaneous control of multiple instruments at the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope

Erik M. Johansson, Bret Goodrich

Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 84510J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926441
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) is a 4-meter solar observatory under construction at Haleakala, Hawaii. The simultaneous use of multiple instruments is one of the unique capabilities that makes the ATST a premier ground based solar observatory. Control of the instrument suite is accomplished by the Instrument Control System (ICS), a layer of software between the Observatory Control System (OCS) and the instruments. The ICS presents a single narrow interface to the OCS and provides a standard interface for the instruments to be controlled. It is built upon the ATST Common Services Framework (CSF), an infrastructure for the implementation of a distributed control system. The ICS responds to OCS commands and events, coordinating and distributing them to the various instruments while monitoring their progress and reporting the status back to the OCS. The ICS requires no specific knowledge about the instruments. All information about the instruments used in an experiment is passed by the OCS to the ICS, which extracts and forwards the parameters to the appropriate instrument controllers. The instruments participating in an experiment define the active instrument set. A subset of those instruments must complete their observing activities in order for the experiment to be considered complete and are referred to as the must-complete instrument set. In addition, instruments may participate in eavesdrop mode, outside of the control of the ICS. All instrument controllers use the same standard narrow interface, which allows new instruments to be added without having to modify the interface or any existing instrument controllers.

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Erik M. Johansson and Bret Goodrich "Simultaneous control of multiple instruments at the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 84510J (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926441

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