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14 July 2008 Gemini Planet Imager autonomous software
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The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is an "extreme" adaptive optics coronagraph system that will have the ability to directly detect and characterize young Jovian-mass exoplanets. The design of this instrument involves eight principal institutions geographically spread across North America, with four of those sites writing software that must run seamlessly together while maintaining autonomous behaviour. The objective of the software teams is to provide Gemini with a unified software system that not only performs well but also is easy to maintain. Issues such as autonomous behaviour in a unified environment, common memory to share status and information, examples of how this is being implemented, plans for early software integration and testing, command hierarchy, plans for common documentation and updates are explored in this paper. The project completed its preliminary design phase in 2007, and has just recently completed its critical design phase.
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Jennifer Dunn, Robert Wooff, Malcolm Smith, Dan Kerley, Dave Palmer, Steve Jones, Jason Weiss, John Angione, and James R. Graham "Gemini Planet Imager autonomous software", Proc. SPIE 7019, Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II, 701910 (14 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788032
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KEYWORDS
Gemini Planet Imager

Gemini Observatory

Adaptive optics

Control systems

Coronagraphy

Iterated function systems

Computing systems

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