A DIN-rail Based Modular Design for Controlling Observatories and Telescopes
Abstract
In this paper we describe a multi-functional electronics design suitable to implement versatile embedded control functionalities, especially to drive autonomous telescope systems. This system of ours is a daisy-chained series of electronics having a DIN-rail compatible form factor, where each of the modules support all of the functionalities related to inter-module communication, autonomous computing and supporting physical connection and drivers to external interfaces.
- Publication:
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Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- September 2021
- DOI:
- 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.06
- Bibcode:
- 2021RMxAC..53...23P
- Keywords:
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- instrumentation: detectors;
- methods: observational;
- telescopes