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The OAdM Robotic Observatory

J. Colomé, I. Ribas, Xavier Francisco, Kevin Casteels, D. Fernández, J. Isern, Xavier Palau

Year
2009
Citations
14
Access
Open access

Abstract

The Montsec Astronomical Observatory (OAdM) is a small‐class observatory working in fully unattended control, due to the isolation of the site. Robotic operation is, then, mandatory for its routine use. We present a description of the general control software and several software packages developed. The general control software protects the system specially at the identified single points of failure and makes a distributed control of any subsystem.

Keywords

ObservatorySoftwarePhysicsControl softwareIsolation (microbiology)Optical add-drop multiplexerOperating systemComputer scienceAstronomyOptoelectronics

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