robotic and non-robotic control of astrophysical instruments机器人和non-robotic天体物理仪器的控制.pdf

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2010, Article ID 620424, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2010/620424 Research Article Robotic and Non-Robotic Control of Astrophysical Instruments ¨ 1 1 1 2 Gerd Kuveler, Van Dung Dao, Axel Zuber, and Renzo Ramelli 1 Hochschule RheinMain, Institut fur Automatisierungsinformatik, Am Bruckweg 26, 65428 Russelsheim, Germany ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno, Via Patocchi, 6605 Locarno, Switzerland ¨ Correspondence should be addressed to Gerd Kuveler, gerdkueveler@hs-rm.de Received 2 June 2009; Revised 20 October 2009; Accepted 24 December 2009 Academic Editor: Taro Kotani ¨ Copyright © 2010 Gerd Kuveler et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We present a system of device control programs, developed for the solar observatory at Locarno/Switzerland (IRSOL). Because these programs are implemented as servers—clearly separated from the higher levels—scientific instruments, for example, telescopes, can be operated both in a user-controlled mode (GUI, telnet) and in a fully automated mode by use of a script. Astronomical instruments such as telescopes or spectrographs will be responded to by ASCII command strings, which are the same for all clients. In case a device control software does not support multiclient o