Architecture of the integrated model of the Euro50

Anita Enmark; Torben Andersen; Mette Owner-Petersen; Michael Browne; Andrew Shearer

doi:10.1117/12.670197

26 June 2006 Architecture of the integrated model of the Euro50

Anita Enmark, Torben Andersen, Mette Owner-Petersen, Michael Browne, Andrew Shearer

Proceedings Volume 6271, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy II; 627114 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670197
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

The Euro50 is a proposed 50m extremely large telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths. To study and predict the performance of the complete telescope system, an integrated model combining the structural model of the telescope, optics models, the control systems and the adaptive optics has been established. Wind and atmospheric disturbances are also included in the model. The model is written in MATLAB and C. It is general and modular and built around dedicated ordinary differential equation solvers. The difference in time constants between subsystems is exploited to speed up calculations. The solvers can handle discontinuities and subsystem mode changes. The high degree of modularity allows different telescope designs to be modelled by rearranging subsystem blocks. Certain subsystems, for instance adaptive optics, can also run in a standalone fashion. Parts of the model are parallelized for execution on a large shared memory machine. The resulting architecture of the integrated model and sample results using the code for different telescope models are presented.

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Anita Enmark, Torben Andersen, Mette Owner-Petersen, Michael Browne, and Andrew Shearer "Architecture of the integrated model of the Euro50", Proc. SPIE 6271, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy II, 627114 (26 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670197

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