A status update of the VLTI control system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 21-31

  Wallander, Anders ^a   Bauvir, Bertrand ^b   Dimmler, Martin ^a   Donaldson, Rob ^a   Fedrigo, Enrico ^a   Gilli, Bruno ^a   Housen, Nico ^b   Huxley, Alexis ^a   Duc, Thanh Phan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Control system; Stellar interferometer; VLTI

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUXILARY TELESCOPES; STELLER INTERFEROMETER; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETER (VLTI);

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344256031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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