Design of low cost and reliable instrumentation for robotic telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 677-688

  Mottram, Chris J ^a   Steele, Iain A ^a   Morales, L ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Robotic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OPTICAL FIBERS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

CCD CAMERAS; INSTRUMENTATION; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444278118     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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