Mr. Manuel Huertas López Profile

Manuel Huertas López

Software Enginer at Gran Telescopio de Canarias SA

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Artificial intelligence agent to assist the telescope operation as a troubleshooter using a voice-user interface

Manuel Huertas, Agustín Núñez

Proceedings Volume 11452, 114522G (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560948

KEYWORDS: Artificial intelligence, Telescopes, Control systems, Databases

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The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) is a 10.4-meter optical-infrared telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, Spain. Like any modern telescope, it has a high degree of automation and complexity, being made up of hundreds of subsystems that work in a coordinated way to carry out a scientific observation. Even the control system is at a good level of maturity, on certain occasions, when an unwanted event occurs, it sometimes becomes difficult to identify its cause and thus restore the system to its nominal state efficiently. There are three pillars that can be worked on to reduce the time lost due to technical failures: reduce the frequency of occurrence, reduce the impact after the occurrence or increase the detection capacity. However, the system will never be fault-free, so it will always be necessary to develop a system that allows a diagnosis to be made. Ideally, the diagnosis should be made with the information provided by the control system itself and other services that verify the status of the platform, and therefore, with minimal interaction with the user. On the other hand, due to the great variety of faults, and the need to carry out the diagnosis as soon as possible, a voice user interface will be used, in such a way that the operator can indicate the fault that is occurring, using natural language. As a proof of concept, a subsystem diagnostic service has been developed, a thermal monitoring subsystem, a service in charge of providing thermal values of the telescope structure to build a thermal model. During the implementation of this diagnostic service, the need for changes in the software design has already been identified to include the information necessary to generate a good diagnosis, which will indicate to the operator: which part is failing, where it is located and the instruction to replace it. Consequently, it has been proven that extending it to the rest of the control system will bring immediate benefits.

Proceedings Article | 19 August 2016 Paper

First results and future plans for the Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment (CIRCE) for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

Alan Garner, Stephen Eikenberry, Miguel Charcos, Yigit Dallilar, Michelle Edwards, Nestor Lasso-Cabrera, Richard Stelter, Antonio Marin-Franch, S. Nicholas Raines, Kendall Ackley, John Bennett, Javier Cenarro , Brian Chinn, Veronica Donoso, Raymond Frommeyer, Kevin Hanna, Michael Herlevich, Jeff Julian, Paola Miller, Scott Mullin, Charles Murphey, Christopher Packham, Frank Varosi, Claudia Vega, Craig Warner, Anamparambu Ramaprakash, Mahesh Burse, Sujit Punnadi, Pravinkumar Chordia, Andreas Gerarts, Héctor de Paz Martín, María Martín Calero, Riccardo Scarpa, Sergio Fernandez Acosta, William Miguel Hernández Sánchez, Benjamin Siegel, Francisco Francisco Pérez, Himar Viera Martín, José Rodríguez Losada, Agustín Nuñez, Álvaro Tejero, Carlos E. Martín González, César Cabrera Rodríguez, Jordi Molgó Sendra, J. Esteban Rodriguez, J. Israel Fernádez Cáceres, Luis A. Rodríguez García, Manuel Huertas Lopez, Raul Dominguez, Tim Gaggstatter, Antonio Cabrera-Lavers, Stefan Geier, Peter Pessev, Ata Sarajedini, A. J. Castro-Tirado

Proceedings Volume 9908, 99084Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232672

KEYWORDS: Infrared cameras, Polarimetry, Astronomy, X-rays, Stars, Spectroscopy, Spectroscopes, Sensors, Galactic astronomy, Binary data

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Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

Monitoring service for the Gran Telescopio Canarias control system

Manuel Huertas, Jordi Molgo, Rosa Macías, Francisco Ramos

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99133P (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231442

KEYWORDS: Control systems, Data archive systems, Telescopes, Databases, Human-machine interfaces, Data storage, Databases, Inspection, Tolerancing, Statistical analysis, Segmented mirrors

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Proceedings Article | 26 July 2016 Paper

Automatization of the guiding process in the GTC

J. Molgo, C. Álvarez, J. Rodríguez-Losada, M. Huertas, R. Macías, D. Guerra, F. Ramos, T. Gaggstatter, H. Brito, H. de Paz

Proceedings Volume 9913, 99132F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231278

KEYWORDS: Stars, Telescopes, Vignetting, Computing systems, Cameras, Sensors, Image acquisition, Signal to noise ratio, Inspection, Image processing

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