Computing design principles for robotic telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 137-147

  Bowman, Mark K ^a   Ford, Martyn J ^a   Lett, Robert D J ^a   McKay, Derek J ^a   Mücke Herzberg, Dorothea ^a   Norbury, Martin A ^a  

^a Telescope Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic; Computing; Control; Design; Efficiency; R obust; Robotic; Security; Software; Telescope

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; MIRRORS; RELIABILITY; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

NEW GENERATION ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE; ROBOTIC TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036988518     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461346     Document Type: Article

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