Bibcode
Núñez, Miguel; Reyes, Marcos; Viera, Teodora; Zuluaga, Pablo
Bibliographical reference
Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II. Edited by Bridger, Alan; Radziwill, Nicole M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7019, pp. 70190K-70190K-11 (2008).
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Description
WEB, the Wind Evaluation Breadboard, is an Extremely Large Telescope
Primary Mirror simulator, developed with the aim of quantifying the
ability of a segmented primary mirror to cope with wind disturbances.
This instrument supported by the European Community (Framework Programme
6, ELT Design Study), is developed by ESO, IAC, MEDIA-ALTRAN, JUPASA and
FOGALE. The WEB is a bench of about 20 tons and 7 meter diameter
emulating a segmented primary mirror and its cell, with 7 hexagonal
segments simulators, including electromechanical support systems. In
this paper we present the WEB central control electronics and the
software development which has to interface with: position actuators,
auxiliary slave actuators, edge sensors, azimuth ring, elevation
actuator, meteorological station and air balloons enclosure. The set of
subsystems to control is a reduced version of a real telescope segmented
primary mirror control system with high real time performance but
emphasizing on development time efficiency and flexibility, because WEB
is a test bench. The paper includes a detailed description of hardware
and software, paying special attention to real time performance. The
Hardware is composed of three computers and the Software architecture
has been divided in three intercommunicated applications and they have
been implemented using Labview over Windows XP and Pharlap ETS real time
operating system. The edge sensors and position actuators close loop has
a sampling and commanding frequency of 1KHz.