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4 August 2016 Control bandwidth improvements in GRAVITY fringe tracker by switching to a synchronous real time computer architecture
Roberto Abuter, Roderick Dembet, Sylvestre Lacour, Nicola di Lieto, Julien Woillez, Frank Eisenhauer, Pierre Fedou, Than Phan Duc
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Proceedings Volume 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V; 990721 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232019
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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The new VLTI (Very Large Telescope Interferometer) 1 instrument GRAVITY5, 22, 23 is equipped with a fringe tracker16 able to stabilize the K-band fringes on six baselines at the same time. It has been designed to achieve a performance for average seeing conditions of a residual OPD (Optical Path Difference) lower than ~300 nm with objects brighter than K = 10. The control loop implementing the tracking is composed of a four stage real time computer system compromising: a sensor where the detector pixels are read in and the OPD and GD (Group Delay) are calculated; a controller receiving the computed sensor quantities and producing commands for the piezo actuators; a concentrator which combines both the OPD commands with the real time tip/tilt corrections offloading them to the piezo actuator; and finally a Kalman15 parameter estimator. This last stage is used to monitor current measurements over a window of few seconds and estimate new values for the main Kalman15 control loop parameters. The hardware and software implementation of this design runs asynchronously and communicates the four computers for data transfer via the Reflective Memory Network3. With the purpose of improving the performance of the GRAVITY5, 23 fringe tracking16, 22 control loop, a deviation from the standard asynchronous communication mechanism has been proposed and implemented. This new scheme operates the four independent real time computers involved in the tracking loop synchronously using the Reflective Memory Interrupts2 as the coordination signal. This synchronous mechanism had the effect of reducing the total pure delay of the loop from ~3.5 [ms] to ~2.0 [ms] which then translates on a better stabilization of the fringes as the bandwidth of the system is substantially improved. This paper will explain in detail the real time architecture of the fringe tracker in both is synchronous and synchronous implementation. The achieved improvements on reducing the delay via this mechanism will be quantified.
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Roberto Abuter, Roberto Abuter, Roderick Dembet, Roderick Dembet, Sylvestre Lacour, Sylvestre Lacour, Nicola di Lieto, Nicola di Lieto, Julien Woillez, Julien Woillez, Frank Eisenhauer, Frank Eisenhauer, Pierre Fedou, Pierre Fedou, Than Phan Duc, Than Phan Duc, "Control bandwidth improvements in GRAVITY fringe tracker by switching to a synchronous real time computer architecture", Proc. SPIE 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V, 990721 (4 August 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2232019; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232019
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