Title :
Design and development of a user interface to remotely control a radio telescope using virtual instruments
Author :
Hinkson, Dezra ; Marshall, Claude ; Robinson, Sham
Author_Institution :
South Carolina State Univ., Orangeburg, SC, USA
Abstract :
Radio telescopes are the main instruments used in radio astronomy. In order to encourage students of Grades K-12 to be interested in astronomy, a group of students from South Carolina State University have undertaken to computerize a 4.6 meter telescope, called Smiley. The team of students proposed to use a graphical programming language, called Laboratory Virtual Instruments Engineering Workbench (abbreviated LabVIEW) for instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis
Keywords :
physical instrumentation control; radiotelescopes; telecontrol; user interfaces; virtual instrumentation; 4.6 m; Grades K-12 students; Internet; LabVIEW; Laboratory Virtual Instruments Engineering Workbench; Smiley; South Carolina State University; data acquisition; graphical programming language; radio telescope; remote control; virtual instruments; Computer languages; Control systems; Data analysis; Instruments; Optical design; Radio astronomy; Radio control; Relays; Telescopes; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
SoutheastCon, 2002. Proceedings IEEE
Conference_Location :
Columbia, SC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7252-2
DOI :
10.1109/.2002.995605
