A hardware/software simulation for the video tracking system of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory telescope

Details A hardware/software simulation for the video tracking system of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory telescope A hardware/software simulation for the video tracking system of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory telescope

Feb 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984stin...8425562b&link_type=abstract

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Computer Science

Computer Programs, Computerized Simulation, Telescopes, Tracking (Position), Data Acquisition, Error Analysis, Infrared Detectors, Phase Shift, Video Data

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This simulator was created so that C-141 Kuiper Airborne Observatory investigators could test their Airborne Data Acquisition and Management System software on a system which is generally more accessible than the ADAMS on the plane. An investigator can currently test most of his data acquisition program using the data computer simulator in the Cave. (The Cave refers to the ground-based computer facilities for the KAO and the associated support personnel.) The main Cave computer is interfaced to the data computer simulator in order to simulate the data-Exec computer communications. However until now, there has been no way to test the data computer interface to the tracker. The simulator described here simulates both the KAO Exec and tracker computers with software which runs on the same Hewlett-Packard (HP) computer as the investigator's data acquisition program. A simulator control box is hardwired to the computer to provide monitoring of tracker functions, to provide an operator panel similar to the real tracker, and to simulate the 180 deg phase shifting of the chopper squre-wave reference with beam switching. If run in the Cave, one can use their Exec simulator and this tracker simulator.

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