Discovery Channel Telescope software key technologies

Paul J. Lotz

doi:10.1117/12.857557

19 July 2010 Discovery Channel Telescope software key technologies

Paul J. Lotz

Proceedings Volume 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy; 77400O (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857557
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is a 4.3-meter astronomical research telescope being built in northern Arizona as a partnership between Discovery Communications and Lowell Observatory. The project software team has designed and partially implemented a component-based system. We describe here the key features of that design (state-based components that respond to signals) and detail specific implementation technologies we expect to be of most interest: examples of the Command Pattern, State Pattern, and XML-based configuration file handling using LabVIEW classes and shared variables with logging and alarming features.

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Paul J. Lotz "Discovery Channel Telescope software key technologies", Proc. SPIE 7740, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy, 77400O (19 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857557

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