System Architecture for Development and Supervision of Robotic Astronomical Telescope

eng Article in English DOI: 10.14313/PAR_246/43

Patryk Bartkowiak , Radosław Patelski , Marta Kwiatkowska , send Dariusz Pazderski Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, Piotrowo 3a, 60-965 Poznan

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Abstract

In this paper the novel control and communication scheme designed to ease the development and maintenance of the robotic astronomical telescope device is presented. The proposed solution allows the user to remotely access any signal in the controller of the telescope without imposing any additional overhead during telescope operation. The implemented scheme can be used by both an automated control system and human operators for easy supervision, control, and maintenance of the device.

Keywords

Condition Monitoring, Embedded computer control systems and applications, Fault detection and diagnosis, remote servicing, tele-maintenance

Architektura Systemu do zadań Rozwoju i Nadzoru Zrobotyzowanego Teleskopu Astronomicznego

Streszczenie

Artykuł przedstawia nowy system sterowania i komunikacji zaprojektowany w celu usprawnienia rozwoju i utrzymania zrobotyzowanego montażu teleskopu astronomicznego. Proponowane rozwiązanie umożliwia użytkownikowi zdalny dostęp do dowolnych sygnałów wewnątrz sterownika bez zwiększonego obciążenia podczas pracy systemu. Zaimplementowane rozwiązanie może być wykorzystywane zarówno przez automatyczny system nadzorujący, jak i przez użytkownika lub operatora, do nadzoru, sterowania i utrzymania urządzenia.

Słowa kluczowe

kontrola warunków pracy, sterowanie w systemach wbudowanych, wykrywanie błędów i diagnoza, zdalne sterowanie, zdalne utrzymanie

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