ICALEPCS2021 - List of Authors (Carrasco, S.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
THBL02	Exploring Alternatives and Designing the Next Generation of Real-Time Control System for Astronomical Observatories	824
	T.C. Shen, A. Sepulveda ALMA Observatory, Santiago, Chile R.A. Augsburger, S.A. Carrasco, P. Galeas, F. Huenupan, R.S. Seguel Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
	The ALMA Observatory was inaugurated in 2013, after the 8 years of successful operation, obsolescence has started to emerge in different areas. One of the most critical areas is the control bus of the hardware devices located the antenna, which is based on a customized version of CAN bus. Initial studies were performed to explore alternatives, and one of the candidates could be a solution based on EtherCAT. In this paper, the existing architecture will be presented and new architecture will be proposed, which would not only be compatible with the existing hardware devices but also allow prepared the ground for new subsystems that come with ALMA 2030 initiatives. This document reports the progress achieved in a proof of concept project that explores the possibility to embed the existing ALMA monitor & control data structure into EtherCAT frames and use EtherCAT as the main communication protocol to control hardware devices in all the subsystems that comprise the ALMA telescope.
	Slides THBL02 [6.969 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THBL02
About •	Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 18 January 2022 Issue date ※ 06 February 2022
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Exploring Alternatives and Designing the Next Generation of Real-Time Control System for Astronomical Observatories

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T.C. Shen, A. Sepulveda
ALMA Observatory, Santiago, Chile
R.A. Augsburger, S.A. Carrasco, P. Galeas, F. Huenupan, R.S. Seguel
Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

The ALMA Observatory was inaugurated in 2013, after the 8 years of successful operation, obsolescence has started to emerge in different areas. One of the most critical areas is the control bus of the hardware devices located the antenna, which is based on a customized version of CAN bus. Initial studies were performed to explore alternatives, and one of the candidates could be a solution based on EtherCAT. In this paper, the existing architecture will be presented and new architecture will be proposed, which would not only be compatible with the existing hardware devices but also allow prepared the ground for new subsystems that come with ALMA 2030 initiatives. This document reports the progress achieved in a proof of concept project that explores the possibility to embed the existing ALMA monitor & control data structure into EtherCAT frames and use EtherCAT as the main communication protocol to control hardware devices in all the subsystems that comprise the ALMA telescope.

Slides THBL02 [6.969 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2021-THBL02

About •

Received ※ 10 October 2021 Accepted ※ 18 January 2022 Issue date ※ 06 February 2022

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)