Robotic telecope scheduling: The Liverpool Telescope experience

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5493, Issue , 2004, Pages 331-340

  Fraser, Stephen N ^a   Steele, Iain A ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Objective functions; Optimization; Scheduling; Search

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MOON BASES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMETRY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING;

OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OBSERVER SUPPORT SYSTEM (OSS); ROBOTIC CONTROL SYSTEM (RCS); TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM (TCS);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444266681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551380     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. I.A. Steele and D. Carter, "Control software and scheduling of the Liverpool Robotic Telescope" in Telescope Control Systems II, Proc. SPIE 3112, pp. 222-233, 1997.
2. C.J. Mottram, I.A. Steele, L. Morales "Design of low cost and reliable instrumentation for robotic telescopes" in Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, Proc SPIE 5492, 2004.
3. I.A. Steele, A.M. Newsam, C.J. Mottram, P. McNerney, "Enabling schools and public access to the Liverpool Robotic Telescope" in Advanced Global Communications Technologies for Astronomy , Proc SPIE 4011, pp. 133-144, 2000.
4. S.N. Fraser and I.A. Steele, "Object oriented design of the Liverpool Telescope Robotic Control System" in Advanced Telescope and Instrumentation Control Software II, Proc. SPIE 4848, pp. 443-454, 2002.