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25 July 2024 The METIS instrument control system
Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Wim De Meester, Wannes Verstraeten, Kwinten Missiaen, Muhammad Salman, Maddalena Reggiani, Hans Van Winckel, Bart Vandenbussche, Mario Kiekebusch, Dan Popovic, Benoit Serra, Antonio Amorim, Jean-Christophe Barriere, Thomas Bertram, Peter Bizenberger, Oliver Corpace, Yigit Dallilar, Martin Kulas, Dirk Lesman, Ivan Lloro, Jeff Lynn, Lars Mohr, Philip Parr-Burman, Chad Salo, Roy Van Boekel, Shiang-Yu Wang
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Abstract
METIS, the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph, will be one of the first-generation ELT instruments. It has an Instrument Control System (ICS) that allows the instrument to operate in various observing modes, using a multitude of mostly cryogenic mechanisms such as filter wheels, linear stages (e.g. to move mirrors and masks), a derotator, piezo mechanisms for high-speed or high-accuracy displacements (e.g. for pupil stabilization, for adaptive optics field selection and modulation, ...), a chopper, and so on. Thermal and vacuum control of the cryostat on the other hand is handled by a dedicated PLC-based system and is not described in this paper. The ICS is built using the ESO ELT instrument framework, which provides the basic building blocks to control the mechanisms, along with the interface to the telescope and its services, from the low-level pointing and tracking system, the real-time Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics (SCAO) system, to the high-level sequencer-based observing system. In this paper we provide an overview of the ICS electronics, the low-level software running on a Beckhoff PLC, and finally the high-level software running on a Linux workstation. As a detailed description of the entire system is out of scope of the paper, we focus instead on the general design, implementation and testing principles. We show how a fast real-time network (EtherCAT) and off-the-shelf industrial I/O, together with the services provided by the ELT instrument framework, can meet the requirements of ELT instruments, and how they can offer an elegant solution to technically demanding problems such as the high-speed synchronization between a chopper and a detector controller. Finally, we demonstrate how a modular electronics design, a flexible software architecture, and a strong focus on simulation can alleviate some of the organizational challenges of building, integrating and testing an ICS of a complex instrument, which subsystems are developed by institutes in different locations.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Wim Pessemier, Gert Raskin, Wim De Meester, Wannes Verstraeten, Kwinten Missiaen, Muhammad Salman, Maddalena Reggiani, Hans Van Winckel, Bart Vandenbussche, Mario Kiekebusch, Dan Popovic, Benoit Serra, Antonio Amorim, Jean-Christophe Barriere, Thomas Bertram, Peter Bizenberger, Oliver Corpace, Yigit Dallilar, Martin Kulas, Dirk Lesman, Ivan Lloro, Jeff Lynn, Lars Mohr, Philip Parr-Burman, Chad Salo, Roy Van Boekel, and Shiang-Yu Wang "The METIS instrument control system", Proc. SPIE 13101, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII, 131010C (25 July 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020034
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KEYWORDS
Control systems

Cryostats

Equipment

Connectors

Sensors

Cryogenics

Visualization

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