The control software for the Sardinia Radio Telescope

A. Orlati; M. Buttu; A. Melis; C. Migoni; S. Poppi; S. Righini

doi:10.1117/12.924973

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24 September 2012 The control software for the Sardinia Radio Telescope

A. Orlati, M. Buttu, A. Melis, C. Migoni, S. Poppi, S. Righini

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Proceedings Volume 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II; 84512M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924973
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is a new 64-meter shaped antenna designed to carry out observations up to 100 GHz. This large instrument has been built in Sardinia, 35 km north of Cagliari, and is now facing the technical commissioning phase. This paper describes the architecture, the implementation solutions and the development status of NURAGHE, the SRT control software. Aim of the project was to produce a software which is reliable, easy to keep up to date and flexible against other telescopes. The most ambitious goal will be to install NURAGHE at all the three italian radio telescopes, allowing the astronomers to access these facilities through a common interface with very limited extra effort. We give a description of all the control software subsystems (servo systems, backends, receivers, etc.) focusing on the resulting design, which is based on the ACS (Alma Common Software) patterns and comes from linux-based, LGPL, Object-Oriented development technologies. We also illustrate how NURAGHE deals with higher level requirements, coming from the telescope management or from the system users.

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A. Orlati, M. Buttu, A. Melis, C. Migoni, S. Poppi, and S. Righini "The control software for the Sardinia Radio Telescope", Proc. SPIE 8451, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy II, 84512M (24 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924973

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