Software systems for operation, control, and monitoring of the EBEX instrument
We present the hardware and software systems implementing autonomous operation, distributed real-time monitoring, and control for the EBEX instrument. EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne microwave polarimeter designed for a 14 day Antarctic flight that circumnavigates the pole. To meet its science g...
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ftcaltechauth:oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:71664 2023-05-15T13:55:46+02:00 Software systems for operation, control, and monitoring of the EBEX instrument Milligan, Michael Matsumura, Tomotake Radziwill, Nicole M. Bridger, Alan 2010-07-19 application/pdf https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/ https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/1/774007_1.pdf https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/2/1006.5256v2.pdf https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161101-124805176 en eng Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/1/774007_1.pdf https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/2/1006.5256v2.pdf Milligan, Michael and Matsumura, Tomotake (2010) Software systems for operation, control, and monitoring of the EBEX instrument. In: Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy. Proceedings of SPIE. No.7740. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 774007. ISBN 978-0-81948-230-3. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161101-124805176 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161101-124805176> other Book Section PeerReviewed 2010 ftcaltechauth 2021-11-18T18:39:36Z We present the hardware and software systems implementing autonomous operation, distributed real-time monitoring, and control for the EBEX instrument. EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne microwave polarimeter designed for a 14 day Antarctic flight that circumnavigates the pole. To meet its science goals the EBEX instrument autonomously executes several tasks in parallel: it collects attitude data and maintains pointing control in order to adhere to an observing schedule; tunes and operates up to 1920 TES bolometers and 120 SQUID amplifiers controlled by as many as 30 embedded computers; coordinates and dispatches jobs across an onboard computer network to manage this detector readout system; logs over 3 GiB/hour of science and housekeeping data to an onboard disk storage array; responds to a variety of commands and exogenous events; and downlinks multiple heterogeneous data streams representing a selected subset of the total logged data. Most of the systems implementing these functions have been tested during a recent engineering flight of the payload, and have proven to meet the target requirements. The EBEX ground segment couples uplink and downlink hardware to a client-server software stack, enabling real-time monitoring and command responsibility to be distributed across the public internet or other standard computer networks. Using the emerging dirfile standard as a uniform intermediate data format, a variety of front end programs provide access to different components and views of the downlinked data products. This distributed architecture was demonstrated operating across multiple widely dispersed sites prior to and during the EBEX engineering flight. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology) Antarctic |
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We present the hardware and software systems implementing autonomous operation, distributed real-time monitoring, and control for the EBEX instrument. EBEX is a NASA-funded balloon-borne microwave polarimeter designed for a 14 day Antarctic flight that circumnavigates the pole. To meet its science goals the EBEX instrument autonomously executes several tasks in parallel: it collects attitude data and maintains pointing control in order to adhere to an observing schedule; tunes and operates up to 1920 TES bolometers and 120 SQUID amplifiers controlled by as many as 30 embedded computers; coordinates and dispatches jobs across an onboard computer network to manage this detector readout system; logs over 3 GiB/hour of science and housekeeping data to an onboard disk storage array; responds to a variety of commands and exogenous events; and downlinks multiple heterogeneous data streams representing a selected subset of the total logged data. Most of the systems implementing these functions have been tested during a recent engineering flight of the payload, and have proven to meet the target requirements. The EBEX ground segment couples uplink and downlink hardware to a client-server software stack, enabling real-time monitoring and command responsibility to be distributed across the public internet or other standard computer networks. Using the emerging dirfile standard as a uniform intermediate data format, a variety of front end programs provide access to different components and views of the downlinked data products. This distributed architecture was demonstrated operating across multiple widely dispersed sites prior to and during the EBEX engineering flight. |
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https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/1/774007_1.pdf https://authors.library.caltech.edu/71664/2/1006.5256v2.pdf Milligan, Michael and Matsumura, Tomotake (2010) Software systems for operation, control, and monitoring of the EBEX instrument. In: Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy. Proceedings of SPIE. No.7740. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , Bellingham, WA, Art. No. 774007. ISBN 978-0-81948-230-3. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161101-124805176 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161101-124805176> |
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