The portable telescope control system project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3112, Issue , 1997, Pages 124-131

  Bailey, Jeremy A ^a   Prestage, Richard M ^b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

DRAMA; EPICS; Telescope control systems

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; TELESCOPES;

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY (AAO); DRAMA; EPICS; MAXWELL (CO); OPERATING SYSTEMS; SERVO SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; TELESCOPE CONTROL SOFTWARE; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM (TCS); TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEMS; WIDE-RANGE;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845193021     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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