Author: Cascone, E.
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THMPL04 Telescope Control System of the ASTRI SST-2M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array 1266
 
  • E. Antolini, G. Tosti
    Università degli di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
  • L.A. Antonelli, S. Gallozzi, S. Lombardi, F. Lucarelli, M. Mastropietro, V. Testa
    INAF O.A. Roma, Roma, Italy
  • P. Bruno, G. Leto, S. Scuderi
    INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
  • A. Busatta, C. Manfrin, G. Marchiori, E. Marcuzzi
    EIE Group s.r.l., Venezia, Italy
  • R. Canestrari, G. Pareschi, J. Schwarz, S. Scuderi, G. Sironi, G. Tosti
    INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate, Italy
  • E. Cascone
    INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
  • V. Conforti, F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio
    INAF, Bologna, Italy
  • D. Di Michele, C. Grigolon, P. Guarise
    Beckhoff Automation Srl, Limbiate, Italy
  • E. Giro
    INAF- Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • N. La Palombara
    INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Milano, Italy
  • F. Russo
    INAF O.A. Torino, Pino Torinese, Italy
  
  The ASTRI SST-2M tele­scope is a pro­to­type pro­posed for the Small Size class of Tele­scopes of the Cherenkov Tele­scope Array (CTA). The ASTRI pro­to­type adopts in­no­v­a­tive so­lu­tions for the op­ti­cal sys­tem, which poses strin­gent re­quire­ments in the de­sign and de­vel­op­ment of the Tele­scope Con­trol Sys­tem (TCS), whose task is the co­or­di­na­tion of the tele­scope de­vices. All the sub­sys­tems are man­aged in­de­pen­dently by the re­lated con­trollers, which are de­vel­oped through a PC-Based tech­nol­ogy and mak­ing use of the Twin­CAT3 en­vi­ron­ment for the soft­ware PLC. The TCS is built upon the ALMA Com­mon Soft­ware frame­work and uses the OPC-UA pro­to­col for the in­ter­face with the tele­scope com­po­nents, pro­vid­ing a sim­pli­fied full ac­cess to the ca­pa­bil­i­ties of­fered by the tele­scope sub­sys­tems for nor­mal op­er­a­tion, test­ing, main­te­nance and cal­i­bra­tion ac­tiv­i­ties. In this con­tri­bu­tion we high­light how the ASTRI ap­proach for the de­sign, de­vel­op­ment and im­ple­men­ta­tion of the TCS has made the pro­to­type a stand-alone in­tel­li­gent and ac­tive ma­chine, pro­vid­ing also an easy way for the in­te­gra­tion in an array con­fig­u­ra­tion such as the fu­ture ASTRI mini-ar­ray pro­posed to be in­stalled at the south­ern site of the CTA.  
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