| Type |
Conference Paper |
| Names |
Anthony Koeslag, Janus Brink, Peter Menzies, Kenneth H. Nordsieck, Jeffr Percival, Theodore B. Williams |
| Conference Name |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series |
| Volume |
7740 |
| Pages |
5 |
| Date |
July 1, 2010 |
| URL |
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010SPIE.7740E...5K |
| Library Catalog |
NASA ADS |
| Abstract |
Of the two first-light instruments commissioned for the Southern African
Large Telescope (SALT) the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) represents
the most intricate instrument to control on SALT. As such the RSS
control software (RCON) called for a design that would handle the
necessary elaborate configuration commands required to coordinate the
various hardware mechanisms of RSS into the desired states. In this
paper we describe in detail the software architecture, developed in
LabVIEW, used to control the RSS hardware mechanisms. A command ID based
array system was developed to allow the multi-faceted commands to
execute in order to facilitate the shortest configuration times and
managing all of the hardware interdependencies. |