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TY - CONF AU - Raffi, G. ED - Pak, Cheol-on ED - Kurokawa, Shin-ichi ED - Katoh, Tadahiko ED - Furukawa, Kazuro ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Control Software for the ESO VLT J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS1991, Tsukuba, Japan, 11-15 November 1991 CY - Tsukuba, Japan T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems T3 - 3 LA - english AB - The Very Large Telescope (VLT) project of ESO consists of an array of four optical telescopes of 8 m diameter, to be installed at a new site in the Atacama desert in Chile starting in 1995. The control software is completely distributed, being based on LANs interconnecting microprocessors and workstations, where several users and operators will be active at the same time. Microprocessors are used in a variety of control functions, including the active control of the shape of the main mirror and compensation for atmospheric turbulence. Dedicated links and antennas are planned for direct communication and remote observation from various European centers. The main concepts and novelties of the software design are explained. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 202 EP - 207 KW - controls KW - software KW - distributed KW - operation KW - database DA - 1992/12 PY - 1992 SN - 2226-0358 SN - 978-3-95450-254-7 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S05SRN03 UR - https://jacow.org/icalepcs1991/papers/s05srn03.pdf ER -