gbt control system
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GBT Control System. Richard Prestage. Requirements of a Single Dish Telescope. Flexibility! Multiple Receivers GBT has 11 current, 1 retired, more planned Multiple Backends Three Spectrometers Two heterodyne continuum + one bolometer array - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Karl G. Jansky Very Large ArrayRobert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Very Long Baseline Array
GBT Control System
Richard Prestage
Requirements of a Single Dish Telescope• Flexibility!• Multiple Receivers
– GBT has 11 current, 1 retired, more planned• Multiple Backends
– Three Spectrometers– Two heterodyne continuum + one bolometer array– Multiple pulsar backends (many visitor instruments)
• Multiple Observing Modes– Line, Pulsar, Continuum, VLBI, FSSW, PSSW, BMSW, OTF
Mapping…• Continually being upgraded• Software must be flexible and agile
also…
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Requirements of the Control System• Support the above flexibility• Allow novice users to think about astronomy, rather than
device settings• Allow expert users to manipulate and use every capability
of the hardware• Create a laboratory of instruments, rather than a monolithic
telescope– Allow for expansion and upgrades– Minimize interdependencies
• Systems implemented as autonomous units, coordinated by time– Consistent metaphor for devices– Consistent device state machine
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Areas I will cover today
• Monitor and Control System (“Managers”)
• Configuration Logic
• Observation Control
• Queue Control
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• Monitor and Control System (“Managers”)
• Configuration Logic
• Observation Control
• Queue Control
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Monitor and Control System
• Each separate piece of hardware is controlled by a separate process -– “Device Manager”
• Base class “Manager” provides a common control interface and implements core functionality required by all devices.
• Derived class adds methods specific to the needs of the device
• Control or “set-up” variables which define the operation of a device are encapsulated in the class “Parameter”– Primitive data types– Arrays– C-structures
• “setParameter” method can set any Parameter of any type.
Manager
off
on
setParameter
recalculate
activtate
stop
start
arm
complete
getEGST
reportParameter
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Monitor and Control System
Scan Coordinator
Antenna Coordinator
LO1 Manager
Spectrometer Manager
Antenna Manager
Active Surface Manager
• Can have a hierarchy of “coordinators” and “managers”
Monitor and Control System
Standby
Ready
Stopping
Running
Activating
Committed
Aborting
Off
• Basic unit of data acquisition is a “scan”• Contiguous period of telescope motion and data
acquisition• One “On” of an On-Off observation or point map• One “row” of an on-the-fly map.• Managers are independent state machines• Coordinated by Start Time
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• Monitor and Control System (“Managers”)
• Configuration Logic• Observation Control
• Queue Control
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Configuration Logic• The GBT has had over 10 receivers and over 10 backends
available for use during the 10 years since its commissioning.
• Each receiver to backend must be routed through a complicated IF chain.
• If any part of the configuration is incorrectly setup, the observation will fail and telescope time will be lost.
• A typical configuration results in over 125 individual settings to at least 7 different hardware devices.
• The ‘configuration tool’ is an api that allows an observer to specify how they want to use the telescope without having to understand the details of the hardware or the M&C software system.
• The observer specifies what they want to do and the configuration tool maps this into GBT specific hardware settings.
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Configuration Logic
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Configuration LogicConfigure(""" receiver = 'Rcvr12_18' beam = 'B12' obstype = 'Continuum' backend = 'DCR' nwin = 1 restfreq = 15000 deltafreq = 0 bandwidth = 320 swmode = 'tp' swtype = 'none' swper = 0.2 swfreq = 0.0, 0.0 tint = 0.2 vlow = 0 vhigh = 0 vframe = 'topo' vdef = 'Radio' noisecal = 'lo' pol = 'Circular' iftarget = 3 """)
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Configuration Logic
• Configuration Tool:– Does what?– How?
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• Monitor and Control System (“Managers”)
• Configuration Logic
• Observation Control• Queue Control
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Observation Control• Typical Observation:
– Calibrate the Telescope (Peak, Focus)– Configure the instrumentation (as discussed above)– Balance the IF system– Slew to a target source (specified in a catalog)– Perform the observation
• GBT Observation Control System executes simple scripts, written in python, to execute the above steps.
• All of the power of python is available to the observer.
Simple Observing ScriptsExample 1:AutoPeakFocus()
Example 2:mySource = “3C48”myOffset = Offset(“J2000”, 1.0, 1.0)
Catalog(flux_cal)Configure(“/home/users/ashelton/myConfigure.py”)
Slew(mySource)Balance()
Track(mySource, myOffset, 60.0, “1”)
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More Complex ExampleoffsetList = [0,1,-1,2,-2,3,-3,4,-4,0]for nOffset in offsetList: # Calculate total offset, place into servo totOffset = offset0 + delOffset*nOffset SetSubrOffset("y3", totOffset)
# Compensate LPC's a = (az0LPC+delOffset*nOffset*azLPCScale) e = (el0LPC+delOffset*nOffset*elLPCScale) f = focus0LPC+delOffset*nOffset*focusLPCScale SetValues("Antenna",{"localPointingOffsets,azOffset2":a}) SetValues("Antenna",{"localPointingOffsets,elOffset":e}) SetValues("Antenna",{"local_focus_correction,Y":f}})
# Add some annotation to the observing process Annotation("Y3FFSET",str(totOffset))
# Do the measurements AutoPeak(source=src, configure=False, balance=False)
Python list, loop
Call a Python function
Python arithmetic
Set values in hardware
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• Monitor and Control System (“Managers”)
• Configuration Logic
• Observation Control
• Queue Control
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Queue Control
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Queue Control
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Queue Control
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