Author: Ingallinera, A.
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TUPHA050 The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System 508
 
  • S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. Schillirò, C. Trigilio
    INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
  • S. Buttaccio, G. Nicotra
    INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
  • R. Cirami, A. Marassi
    INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
  
  The Square Kilo­me­tre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest and most sen­si­tive radio ob­ser­va­tory ever built. SKA is cur­rently com­plet­ing the pre-con­struc­tion phase be­fore ini­ti­at­ing mass con­struc­tion phase 1, in which two ar­rays of radio an­ten­nas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be in­stalled in the South Africa's Karoo re­gion and West­ern Aus­tralia's Murchin­son Shire, each cov­er­ing a dif­fer­ent range of radio fre­quen­cies. The SKA1-Mid array com­prises 130 15-m di­am­e­ter dish an­ten­nas ob­serv­ing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range and will be re­motely or­ches­trated by the SKA Tele­scope Man­ager (TM) sys­tem. To en­able on­site and re­mote op­er­a­tions each dish will be equipped with a Local Mon­i­tor­ing and Con­trol (LMC) sys­tem re­spon­si­ble to di­rectly man­age and co­or­di­nate an­tenna in­stru­men­ta­tion and sub­sys­tems, pro­vid­ing a rolled-up mon­i­tor­ing view and high-level con­trol to TM. This paper gives a sta­tus up­date of the an­tenna in­stru­men­ta­tion and con­trol soft­ware de­sign and pro­vides de­tails on the LMC soft­ware pro­to­type being de­vel­oped.  
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THPHA188 The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System User Interface 1880
 
  • A. Marassi
    INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
  • M. Brambilla
    PoliMi, Milano, Italy
  • A. Ingallinera, S. Riggi, C. Trigilio
    INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
  • G. Nicotra
    INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
  • G. Smit
    SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
  
  The Square Kilo­me­tre Array (SKA) pro­ject is re­spon­si­ble for de­vel­op­ing the SKA Ob­ser­va­tory, the world's largest ra­diote­le­scope ever built: even­tu­ally two ar­rays of radio an­ten­nas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be in­stalled in the South Africa's Karoo re­gion and West­ern Aus­tralia's Murchi­son Shire, each cov­er­ing a dif­fer­ent range of radio fre­quen­cies. In par­tic­u­lar SKA1-Mid array will com­prise 133 15m di­am­e­ter dish an­ten­nas ob­serv­ing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each lo­cally man­aged by a Local Mon­i­tor­ing and Con­trol (LMC) sys­tem and re­motely or­ches­trated by the SKA Tele­scope Man­ager (TM) sys­tem. Dish LMC will pro­vide a Graph­i­cal User In­ter­face (GUI) to be used for mon­i­tor­ing and Dish con­trol in stand­alone mode for test­ing, TM sim­u­la­tion, in­te­gra­tion, com­mis­sion­ing and main­te­nance. This paper gives a sta­tus up­date of the LMC GUI de­sign in­volv­ing users and tasks analy­sis, sys­tem pro­to­typ­ing, in­ter­face eval­u­a­tion and pro­vides de­tails on the GUI pro­to­types being de­vel­oped and tech­no­log­i­cal choices.  
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