ICALEPCS2017 - List of Authors (Riggi, S.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOBPL03	The SKA Telescope Control System Guidelines and Architecture	34
	L. Pivetta SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom A. DeMarco ISSA, Msida, Malta S. Riggi INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy L. Van den Heever SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa S. Vrcic NRC-Herzberg, Penticton, BC, Canada
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international collaboration aimed at building the world's largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre of collecting area, co-hosted by South Africa, for the mid-frequency arrays, and Australia for the low-frequency array. Since 2015 the SKA Consortia joined in a global effort to identify, investigate and select a single control system framework suitable for providing the functionalities required by the SKA telescope monitoring and control. The TANGO Controls framework has been selected and comprehensive work has started to provide telescope-wide detailed guidelines, design patterns and architectural views to build Element and Central monitoring and control systems exploiting the TANGO Controls framework capabilities.
	Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/S-C9zPdmld0
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TUPHA050	The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System	508
	S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. SchillirÃ², C. Trigilio INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy S. Buttaccio, G. Nicotra INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy R. Cirami, A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio observatory ever built. SKA is currently completing the pre-construction phase before initiating mass construction phase 1, in which two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchinson Shire, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. The SKA1-Mid array comprises 130 15-m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range and will be remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. To enable onsite and remote operations each dish will be equipped with a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system responsible to directly manage and coordinate antenna instrumentation and subsystems, providing a rolled-up monitoring view and high-level control to TM. This paper gives a status update of the antenna instrumentation and control software design and provides details on the LMC software prototype being developed.
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THPHA142	The SKA Dish SPF and LMC Interaction Design: Interfaces, Simulation, Testing and Integration	1712
	A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy J. Kotze, T.J. Steyn, C. van Niekerk EMSS Antennas, Stellenbosch, South Africa S. Riggi, F. SchillirÃ² INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy G. Smit SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire respectively, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular, the SKA1-Mid array will comprise of 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. All control system functionality run on the Tango Controls platform. The Dish Single Pixel Feed (SPF) work element will design the combination of feed elements, orthomode transducers (OMTs), and low noise amplifiers (LNAs) that receive the astronomical radio signals. Some SPFs have cryogenically cooled chambers to obtain the sensitivity requirements. This paper gives a status update of the SKA Dish SPF and LMC interaction design, focusing on SPF, LMC simulators and engineering/operational user interfaces, prototypes being developed and technological choices.
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THPHA188	The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System User Interface	1880
	A. Marassi INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy M. Brambilla PoliMi, Milano, Italy A. Ingallinera, S. Riggi, C. Trigilio INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy G. Nicotra INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy G. Smit SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
	The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radiotelescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular SKA1-Mid array will comprise 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. Dish LMC will provide a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to be used for monitoring and Dish control in standalone mode for testing, TM simulation, integration, commissioning and maintenance. This paper gives a status update of the LMC GUI design involving users and tasks analysis, system prototyping, interface evaluation and provides details on the GUI prototypes being developed and technological choices.
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Paper

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The SKA Telescope Control System Guidelines and Architecture

34

L. Pivetta
SKA Organisation, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
A. DeMarco
ISSA, Msida, Malta
S. Riggi
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
L. Van den Heever
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
S. Vrcic
NRC-Herzberg, Penticton, BC, Canada

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international collaboration aimed at building the world's largest radio telescope, with eventually over a square kilometre of collecting area, co-hosted by South Africa, for the mid-frequency arrays, and Australia for the low-frequency array. Since 2015 the SKA Consortia joined in a global effort to identify, investigate and select a single control system framework suitable for providing the functionalities required by the SKA telescope monitoring and control. The TANGO Controls framework has been selected and comprehensive work has started to provide telescope-wide detailed guidelines, design patterns and architectural views to build Element and Central monitoring and control systems exploiting the TANGO Controls framework capabilities.

Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/S-C9zPdmld0

Slides MOBPL03 [6.980 MB]

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TUPHA050

The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System

508

S. Riggi, U. Becciani, A. Costa, A. Ingallinera, F. SchillirÃ², C. Trigilio
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
S. Buttaccio, G. Nicotra
INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
R. Cirami, A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world's largest and most sensitive radio observatory ever built. SKA is currently completing the pre-construction phase before initiating mass construction phase 1, in which two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchinson Shire, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. The SKA1-Mid array comprises 130 15-m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range and will be remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. To enable onsite and remote operations each dish will be equipped with a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system responsible to directly manage and coordinate antenna instrumentation and subsystems, providing a rolled-up monitoring view and high-level control to TM. This paper gives a status update of the antenna instrumentation and control software design and provides details on the LMC software prototype being developed.

Poster TUPHA050 [3.507 MB]

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THPHA142

The SKA Dish SPF and LMC Interaction Design: Interfaces, Simulation, Testing and Integration

1712

A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
J. Kotze, T.J. Steyn, C. van Niekerk
EMSS Antennas, Stellenbosch, South Africa
S. Riggi, F. SchillirÃ²
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
G. Smit
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire respectively, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular, the SKA1-Mid array will comprise of 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. All control system functionality run on the Tango Controls platform. The Dish Single Pixel Feed (SPF) work element will design the combination of feed elements, orthomode transducers (OMTs), and low noise amplifiers (LNAs) that receive the astronomical radio signals. Some SPFs have cryogenically cooled chambers to obtain the sensitivity requirements. This paper gives a status update of the SKA Dish SPF and LMC interaction design, focusing on SPF, LMC simulators and engineering/operational user interfaces, prototypes being developed and technological choices.

Poster THPHA142 [0.321 MB]

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THPHA188

The SKA Dish Local Monitoring and Control System User Interface

1880

A. Marassi
INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy
M. Brambilla
PoliMi, Milano, Italy
A. Ingallinera, S. Riggi, C. Trigilio
INAF-OACT, Catania, Italy
G. Nicotra
INAF IRA, Bologna, Italy
G. Smit
SKA South Africa, National Research Foundation of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is responsible for developing the SKA Observatory, the world's largest radiotelescope ever built: eventually two arrays of radio antennas - SKA1-Mid and SKA1-Low - will be installed in the South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's Murchison Shire, each covering a different range of radio frequencies. In particular SKA1-Mid array will comprise 133 15m diameter dish antennas observing in the 350 MHz-14 GHz range, each locally managed by a Local Monitoring and Control (LMC) system and remotely orchestrated by the SKA Telescope Manager (TM) system. Dish LMC will provide a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to be used for monitoring and Dish control in standalone mode for testing, TM simulation, integration, commissioning and maintenance. This paper gives a status update of the LMC GUI design involving users and tasks analysis, system prototyping, interface evaluation and provides details on the GUI prototypes being developed and technological choices.

Poster THPHA188 [0.712 MB]

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