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Announcement
Adaptive Optics Real-time control system workshop, Durham, UK, 13-14th April 2011
The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. The computational demands placed on the next generation RTCSs for future extremely large telescopes (ELTs) are enormous, and even current systems require skill to implement.
The main workshop goal is to gather international AO RTCS specialists in order to share and exchange experience regarding the design and implementation of these systems. Such shared experience can be used to improve the design of new and proposed AO systems, increasing their performance and usability. As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers.
The workshop will include presentations and round-table discussion sessions.
The following topics (and others) will be addressed:
A follow up real-time control workshop will be held at ESO in Garching, Germany, probably in 2012. This workshop falls under the auspices of an MOAO RTC working group that was set up in Autumn 2009 at the MOAO working group sub-meeting of the OSA “Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications” conference held in San Jose, October 13-15th, 2009, though is not restricted to, or aimed at, MOAO in particular, rather it covers the whole of astronomical AO real-time control.
Announcement
Adaptive Optics Real-time control system workshop, Durham, UK, 13-14th April 2011
The real-time control system (RTCS) is a crucial component for any astronomical adaptive optics (AO) system. The computational demands placed on the next generation RTCSs for future extremely large telescopes (ELTs) are enormous, and even current systems require skill to implement.
The main workshop goal is to gather international AO RTCS specialists in order to share and exchange experience regarding the design and implementation of these systems. Such shared experience can be used to improve the design of new and proposed AO systems, increasing their performance and usability. As such, the workshop is aimed at real-time control specialists, instrument scientists and adaptive optics engineers.
The workshop will include presentations and round-table discussion sessions.
The following topics (and others) will be addressed:
- Current status and updates
Computation hardware
CPU
DSP
FPGA
GPU
Software
Real-time implementation of algorithms
Standards
CORBA/DDS/infiniBand/etc
Interfaces
Cameras/Wavefront sensors
DMs
Telemetry and status
Platforms
Linux, VX works, Windows, OSX etc.
User functionality
GUI functionality
Scripting capabilities
Performance
Latency and jitter
Definition and measurement of
System testing
Reliability and stability
ELT problems and solutions
Systems engineering
Open-loop system considerations
A follow up real-time control workshop will be held at ESO in Garching, Germany, probably in 2012. This workshop falls under the auspices of an MOAO RTC working group that was set up in Autumn 2009 at the MOAO working group sub-meeting of the OSA “Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications” conference held in San Jose, October 13-15th, 2009, though is not restricted to, or aimed at, MOAO in particular, rather it covers the whole of astronomical AO real-time control.
