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@inproceedings{schwanke:icalepcs2021-mobr02,
author = {U. Schwanke and D. Melkumyan and T. Murach and I. Oya and T. Schmidt and G. Spengler and P. Wagner},
% author = {U. Schwanke and D. Melkumyan and T. Murach and I. Oya and T. Schmidt and G. Spengler and others},
% author = {U. Schwanke and others},
title = {{Control, Readout and Monitoring for the Medium-Sized Telesopes in the Cherenkov Telescope Array}},
booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'21},
pages = {77--83},
eid = {MOBR02},
language = {english},
keywords = {controls, interface, software, hardware, monitoring},
venue = {Shanghai, China},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {18},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {03},
year = {2022},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-221-9},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-MOBR02},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2021/papers/mobr02.pdf},
abstract = {{The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. Its design comprises close to 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes deployed at a southern (Paranal, Chile) and a northern (La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain) site. The inclusion of various array elements, like Large-Sized, Medium-Sized and Small-Sized Telescopes, instruments for atmosphere monitoring, etc, into the Array Control and Data Acquisition System (ACADA) poses a particular challenge which is met by an appropriate software architecture and a well-defined interface for array elements. This conference contribution describes exemplarily how the interface is implemented for the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs, 12m diameter). The implementation uses the ALMA Common Software (ACS) as a framework for software applications facilitating the readout and control of telescope subsystems like the drive system or the pointing camera; the communication with subsystems takes advantage of the OPC UA protocol. It is also discussed what technologies (e.g. data bases) are used for the acquisition and storage of telescope-specific monitoring data.}},
}