Dr. Matteo Canzari Profile

Dr. Matteo Canzari

at INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Paper

Enhancing feature development and user satisfaction in SKA: a beta testing approach within the Cream team

Matteo Canzari, Valentina Alberti, Gianluca Marotta, Giorgio Brajnik

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131014J (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022097

KEYWORDS: Software development, Design, Visualization, Signal processing, Scientific research, Observatories, Observational astronomy, Human-machine interfaces, Control systems, Control software

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The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) project aims to develop scientific and control software within a collaboration involving more than 30 teams distributed worldwide. The agile method tailored for large collaborations known as SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) has been adopted to manage such a complex scenario. SAFe provides principles and practices for coordination among various teams involved in the incremental development of software, ensuring a global view of the project status at the individual team and program board levels. The CREAM team is a specialized team responsible for developing both the Local Monitoring and Control software of the Central Signal Processing (CSP.LMC) subsystem and the web graphical interface named Taranta. Within the team, it was observed that, in some cases, Taranta’s features released according to the Definition of Done (DoD) criteria and in alignment with the management’s requests did not fully meet user needs when adopted by teams. The lack of a process allowing for the reconsideration and redevelopment of features, coupled with uncertainty about when these issues could be addressed within the Program Increment, led teams to either underutilize or lose confidence in the whole software. A hypothesis is that the problem could be due to a missing beta testing process for features at the time of release. In the implemented SAFe process, features are demonstrated at the time of release during a system demo, and the team can make limited adjustments based on feedback collected during the session, typically constrained as they are usually already working on another feature. This paper suggests an approach to conduct beta tests that is well integrated within the SAFe framework and specifically its two-level iterations: quarterly and be-weekly ones. The challenges are being able to spend enough time exploring and detecting UX issues (through a beta testing process) and delivering a solution within consecutive sprints, but still adhering to the DoD. The paper outlines the steps for selecting beta users, the types of tests conducted, how feedback was collected and the final considerations. We believe this approach, testing with small groups of SKAO personnel, can be standardized for potential adoption across all the SKAO teams, and potentially also by other large scientific projects that rely on agile development methods.

Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Paper

The evolution and roadmap of the Taranta project

Matteo Canzari, Valentina Alberti, Hélder Ribeiro, Ajaykumar Dubey, Athos Georgiou, Vincent Hardion, Yimeng Li, Mikel Eguiraun, Johan Forsberg, Michal Gandor

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131014E (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020816

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Databases, Scientific research, Telecommunications, Synchrotrons, Reliability, Light emitting diodes, Human-machine interfaces, Software development, Visualization

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Proceedings Article | 25 July 2024 Paper

Leverage collaborative design techniques to develop a unified interface for the SKA central signal processor

Valentina Alberti, Gianluca Marotta, Matteo Canzari, Grant Hampson, Andrew Bolin, Giorgio Brajnik

Proceedings Volume 13101, 131014I (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3021688

KEYWORDS: Signal processing, Design, Telescopes, Engineering, Human-machine interfaces, Control software

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Proceedings Article | 18 July 2024 Poster + Paper

Upgrading the AZT24 telescope at the Campo Imperatore high-altitude observatory: design and installation of a new, seeing-enhanced NIR imager

M. Dolci, E. Brocato, G. Rodeghiero, S. Di Frischia, P. D'Incecco, M. Canzari, S. Benedetti, F. De Luise, M. Di Carlo, A. Di Cianno, N. Napoleone, A. Piersimoni, E. Portaluri, G. Raimondo, L. Tartaglia, A. Valentini, G. Valentini

Proceedings Volume 13096, 130968W (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020225

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Sensors, Near infrared, Indium gallium arsenide, Astronomy, Imaging systems, Point spread functions, Cameras

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Proceedings Article | 29 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

How Taranta provides tools to build user interfaces for TANGO devices in the SKA integration environment without writing a line of code

Matteo Canzari, Valentina Alberti, Hèlder Ribeiro, Ajaykumar Dubey, Vincent Hardion, Mikel Eguiraun, Linh Nguyen, Yimeng Li

Proceedings Volume 12189, 121890W (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630141

KEYWORDS: Human-machine interfaces, Software development, Control systems, Environmental monitoring, Visualization, Telescopes, Telecommunications, Standards development, Radio telescopes, Navigation systems

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Observatory science operations tool development for the SKA within a scaled agile framework

Pamela Klaassen, Stewart WIlliams, Mark Nicol, Valentina Alberti, Alan Bridger, Antonio Chrysostomou, Snehal Valame, Elizabeth Bartlett, Matteo Canzari, Abhijeet Deolalikar, John Lightfoot, Andrew McDermott, Viivi Pursiainen, Hélder Ribero, Jose Sabater

Proceedings Volume 11449, 114490Z (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562109

KEYWORDS: Software development, Observatories, Prototyping, Standards development, Telescopes, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Satisfying wishes for SKA engineers: how Taranta suite meets users’ needs

Matteo Canzari, Valentina Alberti, Helder Ribero, Ajaykumar Dubey, Vincent Hardion

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114523D (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562585

KEYWORDS: Human-machine interfaces, Interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Achieving a rolled-up view of SKA TM health status and state: definition and analysis of aggregation methods

Mauro Dolci, Matteo Canzari, Matteo Di Carlo, Riccardo Smareglia

Proceedings Volume 10704, 107040H (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314056

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Algorithm development, Control systems, Logic, Data archive systems, Complex systems

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Very large scale high performance computing and instrument management for high availability systems through the use of virtualization at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope

J. B. Morgado, D. Maia, D. Barbosa, J. P. Barraca, J. Bergano, D. Bartashevich, M. Di Carlo, M. Canzari, M. Dolci, R. Smareglia

Proceedings Volume 10707, 107070I (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313559

KEYWORDS: Computing systems, Telescopes, Data storage, Antennas, Data processing, Databases, Computer architecture, Signal processing, Data archive systems, Data centers

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

HDB@ELK: another noSql customization for the HDB++ archiving system

M. Di Carlo, M. Canzari, M. Dolci, R. Smareglia

Proceedings Volume 10707, 107072D (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312464

KEYWORDS: Databases, Data modeling, Data archive systems, Control systems, Data storage, Analytics, Computer architecture, Cameras, Standards development, Instrument modeling

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

SKA telescope manager: a status update

Alan Bridger, Yashwant Gupta, Subhrojyoti Chaudhuri, Matteo Di Carlo, Gerhard Le Roux, Swaminathan Natarajan, Riccardo Smareglia, Mangesh Patil, Domingos Barbosa, Lize van den Heever, Mauro Dolci, Valentina Alberti, Ray Brederode, Joao Paulo Barraca, Dzianis Bartashevich, Miguel Bergano, Giorgio Brajnik, Matteo Canzari, Aditya Dange, Juan Carlos Guzman, Giovanna Jerse, Amruta Khanvilkar, Pamela Klaassen, Cristina Knapic, Jitendra Kodikar, Vikas Kumthekar, Dalmiro Maia, Vivek Mohile, Bruno Morgado, Snehal Nakave, Mark Nicol, Alan O'Brien, Niruj Ramanujam, Jyotin Ranpura, Steven Reed, Vinod Sathe, Nuno Silva, Paul Swart, Franco Tinarelli, Vatsal Trivedi, Lochan Babani, Snehal Valame, Sonja Vrcic, Stewart Williams, Yogesh Wadadekar

Proceedings Volume 10707, 1070703 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313649

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Observatories, Control systems, Computer architecture, Astronomy, Human-machine interfaces, Data archive systems, Logic

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

A GUI prototype for SKA1 TM services: compliance with user-centered design approach

M. Canzari, M. Di Carlo, I. Khokhriakov, S. Poppi, M. Dolci, R. Smareglia

Proceedings Volume 10707, 107072P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313276

KEYWORDS: Human-machine interfaces, Control systems, Prototyping, Radio telescopes, Software development, Telescopes, Control systems design

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

TM Services: an architecture for monitoring and controlling the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Telescope Manager (TM)

M. Di Carlo, M. Canzari, M. Dolci, R. Smareglia, D. Barbosa, J. Morgado, J. P. Barraca

Proceedings Volume 10707, 107071N (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309341

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Signal processing, Databases, Clouds, Data modeling, Space telescopes, Signal detection, Data processing, Logic

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Proceedings Article | 9 August 2016 Paper

Monitoring and controlling the SKA telescope manager: a peculiar LMC system in the framework of the SKA LMCs

Matteo Di Carlo, Mauro Dolci, Riccardo Smareglia, Matteo Canzari, Simone Riggi

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99133S (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231614

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Control systems, Control systems, Chemical elements, Data centers, Data modeling, Signal processing, Databases, Logic devices, Data storage, Diagnostics

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