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现代化天文台控制:将遗留的DRAMA框架与下一代仪器集成

Modernising Observatory Control: Integrating Legacy DRAMA with Next-Generation Instrumentation

Mrunmayi S Deshpande, Nuria P F Lorente, Tony Farrell, Satyam Mishra

arXiv 2608.06653首次发表:更新:

AI 中文总结

该研究针对遗留DRAMA框架适配下一代天文仪器的需求,通过Docker容器化和Python接口改进,保留其可靠性,已应用于KSPEC光谱仪等新仪器的控制架构。

AI 中文摘要

DRAMA框架最初于20世纪90年代初在英澳天文台(AAO)开发,1992年首次发布,用C和C++编写,提供基于分布式消息的控制架构,曾为多个大型仪器提供支持,包括英澳望远镜的2dF光纤定位器、AAOmega和HERMES等光纤馈电光谱仪、IRIS2红外成像仪,以及英国施密特望远镜的TAIPAN仪器。尽管DRAMA历史较长,但它仍是一个健壮且结构良好的系统,其实时性能和面向模块化任务的设计对天文仪器仍具重要价值。随着AAO开发新仪器,我们正在扩展和调整DRAMA环境,以满足当前软件工程和部署要求。近期改进包括使用Docker将DRAMA容器化,以及开发现代Python接口,无需修改底层代码即可实现集成。该方法保留了原始框架的可靠性,使新仪器能在更灵活、可维护的生态系统中采用DRAMA。目前DRAMA仍在开发中发挥积极作用,正被用于KMTNet望远镜上新构建的KSPEC光谱仪,同时也是为Devasthal光学望远镜开发的高分辨率光谱仪的控制架构。

英文摘要

The DRAMA framework was originally developed at the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) in the early 1990s, with its first release in 1992. Designed in C and C++, DRAMA provides a distributed, message-based control architecture that has powered major instruments such as the 2dF fibre positioner, fibre-fed spectrographs like AAOmega and HERMES, and the IRIS2 infrared imager on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and the TAIPAN instrument on the UK Schmidt Telescope. Despite its age, DRAMA remains a robust and well-structured system whose real-time behaviour and modular task oriented design continue to be valuable for astronomical instrumentation. As new instruments are being developed at the AAO, we are extending and adapting the DRAMA environment to meet the current software engineering and deployment requirements. Our recent improvements include containerising DRAMA using Docker and a modern Python interface that enables integration without modifying the underlying codebase. This approach preserves the reliability of the original framework, and allows new instruments to adopt DRAMA within more flexible and maintainable ecosystems. At present, DRAMA continues to play an active role in our development efforts: it is being used for the newly built KSPEC spectrograph on the KMTNet telescope, and also forms the control architecture for the high-resolution spectrograph being developed for the Devasthal Optical Telescope.

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