LSST control system

Germán Schumacher; Michael Warner; Victor Krabbendam

doi:10.1117/12.671284

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27 June 2006 LSST control system

Germán Schumacher, Michael Warner, Victor Krabbendam

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Proceedings Volume 6274, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy; 627403 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671284
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based telescope designed to obtain sequential images of the entire visible sky every few nights. The LSST, in spite of its large field of view and short 15 second exposures, requires a very accurate pointing and tracking performance. The high efficiency specified for the whole system implies that observations will be acquired in blind pointing mode and tracking demands calculated from blind pointing as well. This paper will provide a high level overview of the LSST Control System (LCS) and details of the Telescope Control System (TCS), explaining the characteristics of the system components and the interactions among them. The LCS and TCS will be designed around a distributed architecture to maximize the control efficiency and to support the highly robotic nature of the LSST System. In addition to its control functions, the LCS will capture, organize and store system wide state information, to make it available for monitoring, evaluation and calibration processes. An evaluation of the potential communications middleware software to be utilized for data transport, is also included.

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Germán Schumacher, Michael Warner, and Victor Krabbendam "LSST control system", Proc. SPIE 6274, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy, 627403 (27 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.671284

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