Control software and scheduling of the Liverpool robotic telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3112, Issue , 1997, Pages 222-233

  Steele, Iain A ^a   Carter, D ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Robotic telescopes; Telescope control systems; Telescope scheduling; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SCHEDULING; TELESCOPES;

CONTROL SOFTWARE (CS); ROBOTIC TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TELESCOPE SCHEDULING;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 9944265893     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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