Design and development of telescope control system and software for the 50/80 cm Schmidt telescope

dc.contributor.author	Kumar, T. S.
dc.contributor.author	Banavar, R. N.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-09T11:03:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-09T11:03:21Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1105
dc.description.abstract	In this paper, we describe the details of telescope controller design for the 50/80 cm Schmidt telescope at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES. The GUI based software for commanding the telescope is developed in Visual C++. The hardware architecture features a distributed network of microcontrollers over CAN. The basic functionality can also be implemented using the dedicated RS232 port per board. The controller is able to perform with negligible rms velocity errors. At fine speeds limit cycles are exhibited due to nonlinear friction. At speeds over 3.90 × 10−02 radians/sec, the PI controller performs with peak errors less than 1%.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SPIE	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;SPIE8444-844450-1
dc.subject	Telescope controller, CAN, GUI, PI controller	en_US
dc.title	Design and development of telescope control system and software for the 50/80 cm Schmidt telescope	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US