Software architecture and development approach for the ASTRI Mini-Array project at the Teide Observatory

Bulgarelli, Andrea; Lucarelli, Fabrizio; Tosti, Gino; Conforti, Vito; Parmiggiani, Nicolò; Schwarz, Joseph Hillary; Alvarez Gallardo, Juan Guillermo; Antonelli, Lucio Angelo; Araya, Mauricio; Balbo, Matteo; Baroncelli, Leonardo; Bigongiari, Ciro; Bruno, Pietro; Capalbi, Milvia; Cardillo, Martina; Rodriguez Castillo, Guillermo Andres; Catalano, Osvaldo; Compagnino, Antonio Alessio; Corpora, Mattia; Costa, Alessandro; Crestan, Silvia; Cusumano, Giuseppe; D’Aì, Antonino; Fioretti, Valentina; Gallozzi, Stefano; Germani, Stefano; Gianotti, Fulvio; Giordano, Valentina; Giuliani, Andrea; Grillo, Alessandro; Huerta, Isaias; Incardona, Federico; Iovenitti, Simone; La Palombara, Nicola; La Parola, Valentina; Landoni, Marco; Lombardi, Saverio; Maccarone, Maria Cettina; Millul, Rachele; Mineo, Teresa; Montenegro, Gabriela; Mollica, Davide; Munari, Kevin; Pagliaro, Antonio; Pareschi, Giovanni; Pastore, Valerio; Perri, Matteo; Pintore, Fabio; Romano, Patrizia; Russo, Federico; Sanchez, Ricardo Zanmar; Sangiorgi, Pierluca; Saturni, Francesco Gabriele; Sayes, Nestor; Sciacca, Eva; Sliusar, Vitalii; Scuderi, Salvatore; Tacchini, Alessandro; Testa, Vincenzo; Trifoglio, Massimo; Tutone, Antonio; Vercellone, Stefano; Walter, Roland; for the ASTRI Project,

doi:10.1117/1.jatis.10.1.017001

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“…Ref. [29] describes the architecture and the development approach of the ASTRI Mini-Array software. Figure 12 is the context view of the ASTRI Mini-Array software showing all the software systems that compose it and the relationship/interface between them and with the external world (systems and actors).…”

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The ASTRI Mini-Array: A New Pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

Scuderi

2024

Universe

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The ASTRI Mini-Array is an Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) project to build and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the Teide Astronomical Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife (Spain) based on a host agreement with INAF and, as such, it will be the largest IACT array until the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory starts operations. Implementing the ASTRI Mini-Array poses several challenges from technical, logistic, and management points of view. Starting from the description of the innovative technologies adopted to build the telescopes, we will discuss the solutions adopted to overcome these challenges, making the ASTRI Mini-Array a great instrument to perform deep observations of the galactic and extra-galactic sky at very high energies.

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The ASTRI Mini-Array: A New Pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

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2024

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The PLC control system development from ASTRI-Horn to ASTRI Mini-Array

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Baldini

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Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII

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The ASTRI project (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) led by INAF (Italian National Institute of Astrophysics) was created to study astronomical sources that emit gamma rays at very high energies. The ASTRI Mini-Array project involves the construction and installation of nine Cherenkov telescopes at the Teide Observatory (Spain), three of which have been constructed thus far. This document concerns the development of the low-level software for the control of the remaining six telescopes forming part of the project. The logic to be implemented will be derived from the existing software on the ASTRI-Horn prototype telescope installed on Mount Etna as well as from what was created by INAF on the already existing ASTRI Mini-Array telescopes. The control system of each of the six telescopes is called TCU (Telescope Control Unit) and will be developed on a Beckhoff PLC, using the TwinCAT development environment. The TCU will generate the pointing trajectories, control the telescope's movement, and enable the execution of every procedure required for the maintenance, testing, and calibration of the telescope control system. The TCU will also supervise all of the telescope's sub-devices, such as the camera and power supplies, and will manage I/O signals of the interlocks and the logic of the safety procedures in collaboration with a Beckhoff safety PLC. It will also monitor all parameters related to the movement and status of hardware devices. The low-level control system will interface with the high-level TCS (Telescope Control System) software through a standard OPC-UA (Open Platform Communications -Unified Architecture) server, allowing the supervision and command of all equipment connected to the PLC.

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A reliable and automated orchestrator for the computing system of the ASTRI project

Abu,

Gianotti,

Lodi

et al. 2024

Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VIII

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The ASTRI ("Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana") program, led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), is an international collaboration focused on developing and operating an array of nine 4-meter class, dual-mirror Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). These telescopes are designed to detect gamma-ray radiation at energies above 1 TeV. The ASTRI Mini-Array is being constructed at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Canary Islands. To support the development, installation, and operation of the ASTRI Mini-Array, a dedicated on-site Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure has been designed. This ICT infrastructure hosts the Computing System for the SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) software, which monitors, controls, and acquires data from the ASTRI Mini-Array telescopes and associated auxiliary hardware. The deployment model for SCADA is based on a combination of containers, bare metal servers, and virtual machines, all of which communicate seamlessly. Containerization techniques, paired with advanced orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, enhance the system's efficiency.In this paper, we detail the virtual and containerized environment system, which employs the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in conjunction with a container orchestration system. IaC enhances portability, automation, agility, and version control, while the orchestration system automates deployment, scalability, load balancing, resource management, recovery, and container version management.Together, IaC and container orchestration significantly simplify the infrastructure and application management. IaC automates the provisioning of basic infrastructure, while container orchestration ensures that containerized applications run efficiently and reliably. This architecture allows us to manage the entire SCADA system with ease, enabling rapid deployment of the entire system-both the environment and applications-at the Teide Observatory or other test sites.

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Software architecture and development approach for the ASTRI Mini-Array project at the Teide Observatory

Cited by 4 publications

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The ASTRI Mini-Array: A New Pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

The ASTRI Mini-Array: A New Pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays

The PLC control system development from ASTRI-Horn to ASTRI Mini-Array

A reliable and automated orchestrator for the computing system of the ASTRI project

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