UTFSM-ACS Team

ACS team at the

Universidad Technica Federico

Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

Mauricio Araya: Team Leader

ACS – UTFSM Team

ACS team at UTFSM

UTFSM-ACS Team

About Us

• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

• Professors, graduate and undergraduate students

• Objectives:– To explore and use ACS for astronomical and non astronomical projects.

– To help and collaborate with ESO and ALMA project.

– To learn about how real control systems works

– To learn how to manage big and complex projects.

– But the main reason why this group was formed is to work, but just for fun.• http://www.acs.inf.utfsm.cl

UTFSM-ACS Team

Projects

Undergoing Projects:

- ScarLet

- GenericTCS

- ACS Error Browser

Finished Projects:

- CdbChecker

- AcsPackaging

UTFSM-ACS Team

Generic TCS

● Basic but complete TCS architecture built on top of ACS.Coordination and collaboration with other ACS users to design a Generic TCS to be used in multiple projects.

● The desing and implementation should be generic, that means that almost any mount (with few hardware layer adjusts) could use this TCS.

● Objectives

– Develop the TCS with a well defined but simple interface abstraction, that could be used at almost any mount.

– The TCS should include at least a Presetting, Tracking, Pointing and Maintenance interfaces, fulfilling the very basic behaviour of a modern telescope.

– Test the TCS with the Scarlet Proyect.

– Develop a control GUI for promotional reasons.

UTFSM-ACS Team

Generic TCS Status● Design Team

– Preliminary Analysis – General use cases– Subsystem Diagram

● Development Team– Horizontal Coordinate Mount Component– LEGO DevIO – Lego Libs (SCTLibs)– Abeans GUI– OpenGL model (integrated with above)