Presentations
- ACS Workshop - Distributed Systems and CORBA Standard
- General overview of ACS
- Component/Container Model and Lifecycle Management
- ALMA Software Big Picture
- A Trip through ACS Functionality
- Logging and Error Systems Overview
Project
- Minimalist observatory with only two components
- Simplistic Mount
- Query service
- Mount
- observe: Receives a position to be observed
- Moves gradually to the position
- getCurrentPos: Returns the current position
- observe: Receives a position to be observed
- QueryService:
- Connects with a REST API offering the position of objects (https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/vizier/doc/sesame.htx)
- isAlive: Checks the API service status
- getPos: Requests the position of a given object to the API
- Client
- Interacts with either (or both) components to move the telescope and to confirm the reached position is the expected one
